different between cocktail vs rumdum

English

Etymology

Unknown; many unproven stories exist. The word first appeared in 1806 (see citation below).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?kte?l/

Noun

cocktail (plural cocktails)

1. A mixed alcoholic beverage.

   Synonyms: mixed drink, (abbreviation) ckt
2. (by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hodgepodge
3. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Darwin to this entry?)

4. (Britain, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow.

   Synonym: coward
5. A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

cocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)

1. (obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.

Verb

cocktail (third-person singular simple present cocktails, present participle cocktailing, simple past and past participle cocktailed)

1. (transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
2. (transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.

   He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.

See also

• swizzle
• See also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Cocktail”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?kte?l/
• Hyphenation: cock?tail

Noun

cocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje n)

1. cocktail

Derived terms

• cocktailbar
• cocktailjurk
• cocktailparty
• cocktailsaus
• molotovcocktail

Finnish

Alternative forms

• koktaili

Etymology

Borrowed from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kokt?i?l/, [?ko?kt??i?l]
• IPA^(key): /?koktei?l/, [?ko?kt?e?i?l]
• Syllabification: cock?tail

Noun

cocktail

1. cocktail (mixed drink)

Declension

Synonyms

• juomasekoitus
• kimara

French

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k.t?l/

Noun

cocktail m (plural cocktails)

1. cocktail
2. (metonymically) cocktail party

Derived terms

• cocktail de crevettes

Further reading

• “cocktail” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Noun

cocktail m (invariable)

1. cocktail
2. cocktail party

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cocktail.

Noun

cocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailer, definite plural cocktailene)

1. cocktail

References

• “cocktail” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cocktail.

Noun

cocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailar, definite plural cocktailane)

1. cocktail

References

• “cocktail” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

cocktail m (plural cocktails or cocktail)

1. Alternative spelling of cóctel

Swedish

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Noun

cocktail c

1. cocktail

Declension

Derived terms

• cocktailparty
• cocktailpåse
• molotovcocktail

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• c?c tay

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [kok??? taj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [kok???? taj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kok??? ta(?)j??]
• Phonetic: cô?c tay

Noun

cocktail

1. cocktail

See also

• r??u c?ctay

English

Pronunciation

Noun

rumdum (plural rumdums)

1. (slang) An habitual drunkard; a stupid person.
   • 1992, Stephen King, Gerald's Game, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, page 142.

     When a fellow comes into the kitchen to freshen his drink and finds the rumdum from up the road with one hand on his wife's behind and the other down the front of her

2. A cocktail made from rum, applejack and lime juice.

Adjective

rumdum

1. (slang) Dulled or incapacitated by alcohol; unconscious; stupid.

   He was rumdum from beer and pills.

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• girumdum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rum.?dum/

Verb

rumdum

1. to remember

   Antonym: lingaw

Icelandic

Verb

rumdum (weak)

1. first-person plural past indicative of rymja