mocktail
a cocktail without the alcohol
TRANSLATION
mocktail = alkoholfreier Cocktail (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX mocktail: approximately 100,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Our MOCKTAILS are perfect for serving drivers, non-drinkers and other guests when you entertain, or simply to enjoy yourself.
(The Liquor Control Board of Ontario Canada)
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Police in Leicestershire are urging motorists to swap their cocktails for MOCKTAILS this Christmas.
(BBC News)
(The Liquor Control Board of Ontario Canada)
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Police in Leicestershire are urging motorists to swap their cocktails for MOCKTAILS this Christmas.
(BBC News)
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mocktail
noun
- a non-alcoholic cocktail
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WORD ORIGIN
Mocktails are just that: mock cocktails. While mock refers to "making fun of someone or something," it also means to "imitate or counterfeit." Thus a mocktail is an imitation or fake cocktail. Mock can be traced to the Middle French mocquer (to make fun of someone) and perhaps from the Vulgar Latin "muccare", which meant to blow the nose as an insulting gesture.
The origin of the word cocktail has been debated for years. One theory suggests that it is a version of the French word coquetel and was popularised by New Orleans restaurateur Antoine Peychaud, creator of Peychaud's bitters.
The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins writes that while researching this question, a man in Virginia discovered a newspaper article from 1898. As the story goes, there once was a wayside tavern called "The Cock and Bottle." The sign bore a cock and a bottle, meaning that both draft (from the barrel) and bottled ale was sold (a cock in the common dialect referred to a tap). The person who received the last bit of draft ale from the bottom of the barrel was said to have received the "cocktail" (the tail being the end).
On one occasion, a certain Colonel Carter felt humiliated by being served the cocktail, which in those days had the appearance of mud. He angrily threw the glass on the floor and announced, "From this point on, I will drink cocktails of my own brewing." He then mixed together several ingredients that he found in the tavern including bitters, sugar, the oil of a lemon peel and Old Holland gin. If we choose to believe this version, then Colonel Carter made the world's first cocktail.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Mocktails are my drink of choice when driving."
noun
- a non-alcoholic cocktail
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WORD ORIGIN
Mocktails are just that: mock cocktails. While mock refers to "making fun of someone or something," it also means to "imitate or counterfeit." Thus a mocktail is an imitation or fake cocktail. Mock can be traced to the Middle French mocquer (to make fun of someone) and perhaps from the Vulgar Latin "muccare", which meant to blow the nose as an insulting gesture.
The origin of the word cocktail has been debated for years. One theory suggests that it is a version of the French word coquetel and was popularised by New Orleans restaurateur Antoine Peychaud, creator of Peychaud's bitters.
The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins writes that while researching this question, a man in Virginia discovered a newspaper article from 1898. As the story goes, there once was a wayside tavern called "The Cock and Bottle." The sign bore a cock and a bottle, meaning that both draft (from the barrel) and bottled ale was sold (a cock in the common dialect referred to a tap). The person who received the last bit of draft ale from the bottom of the barrel was said to have received the "cocktail" (the tail being the end).
On one occasion, a certain Colonel Carter felt humiliated by being served the cocktail, which in those days had the appearance of mud. He angrily threw the glass on the floor and announced, "From this point on, I will drink cocktails of my own brewing." He then mixed together several ingredients that he found in the tavern including bitters, sugar, the oil of a lemon peel and Old Holland gin. If we choose to believe this version, then Colonel Carter made the world's first cocktail.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Mocktails are my drink of choice when driving."
