different between gimlety vs gimlet

English

Etymology

gimlet +? -y

Adjective

gimlety (comparative more gimlety, superlative most gimlety)

1. (rare) gimlet-eyed, piercing, sharp-sighted
   • 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps

     His jaw had shut like a rat-trap, and there was the fire of battle in his gimlety eyes.

English

Etymology

From the Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, later guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-French wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel, compare the Scandinavian wammie, to bore or twist; the modern French is gibelet.

Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Gimlette.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???m.l?t/

Noun

gimlet (plural gimlets)

1. A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.

   Coordinate terms: auger, awl, drill
2. A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.

   Coordinate term: martini

   • 2001, General Hospital (TV soap opera, August 28):

     Yeah, a piece of advice — once you’re back in circulation, don’t keep topping off a lady’s vodka gimlet when she’s not looking.

   • 2012, Stuart Woods, Unnatural Acts: A Stone Barrington Novel, Penguin (?ISBN), page 98:

     By seven, dinner was under way, and a bottle of vodka gimlets and one of martinis were in the freezer, chilling.

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Verb

gimlet (third-person singular simple present gimlets, present participle gimleting or gimletting, simple past and past participle gimleted or gimletted)

1. To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
2. (nautical, transitive) To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet.

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Further reading

• gimlet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References