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Cocktail vs Cocktailian - What's the difference?

cocktail | cocktailian |

As nouns the difference between cocktail and cocktailian

is that cocktail is while cocktailian is someone who makes cocktails.

As an adjective cocktailian is

of or relating to cocktails.

cocktail

English

(wikipedia cocktail)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mixed alcoholic beverage.
    • They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.
  • * 1806 , 13 May 1806 edition of Balance and Columbian Repository , published by Hudson, New York, (first appearance in print):
    • Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.
  • A mixture of other substances.
    • Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.
    a cocktail of illegal drugs
  • A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
    • (Darwin)
  • (UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
  • * Thackeray
    • It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail .
  • A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

    • Synonyms

    * mixed drink

    Derived terms

    * atomic cocktail * ckt * cocktail cabinet game * cocktail dress * cocktail frank * cocktail frankfurt * cocktail frankfurter * cocktail lounge * cocktail party * cocktail sauce * cocktail sav * cocktail savaloy * cocktail shaker * cocktail stick * cocktail table * Molotov cocktail

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Festive; lively.
  • *
    • now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

    See also

    * swizzle * See also

    References

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    cocktailian

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to cocktails.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 26, author=Toby Cecchini, title=On the Rocks, It’s a New Landscape, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In an attempt to shine the unsparing light of science on these issues, Eben Klemm, senior manager of wine and spirits for B.R. Guest restaurants and a former biotech researcher; Alex Day, a bartender at Death & Co. in Manhattan; and Dave Arnold, the director of culinary technology at the French Culinary Institute, recently presented a seminar at Tales of the Cocktail, an annual convention of all things cocktailian in New Orleans. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who makes cocktails.