cocktail: [19] The origins of the word cocktail are mysterious. It first appeared (in America) in the first decade of the 19th century, roughly contemporary with cocktail meaning ‘horse with a cocked tail’ – that is, one cut short and so made to stick up like a cock’s tail – but whether the two words are connected, and if so, how the drink came to be named after such a horse, are not at all clear.
cocktail (n.)
first attested 1806; H.L. Mencken lists seven versions of its origin, perhaps the most durable traces it to French coquetier "egg-cup" (15c.; in English cocktay). In New Orleans, c. 1795, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary (and inventor of Peychaud bitters) held Masonic social gatherings at his pharmacy, where he mixed brandy toddies with his own bitters and served them in an egg-cup. On this theory, the drink took the name of the cup. Used from 1920s of any mix of substances (fruit, Molotov). Cocktail party first attested 1928.
双语例句
1. He had very kindly asked me to the cocktail party that evening.
他很客气地邀请我参加那晚的鸡尾酒会。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Let's meet in the cocktail lounge at the Hilton.
我们在希尔顿酒店的酒吧间碰头吧。
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3. On arrival, guests are offered wine or a champagne cocktail.
每位宾客一到场都会有人送上葡萄酒或香槟鸡尾酒。
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4. Children and guns are a potentially lethal cocktail.