Gin vs Ginn - What's the difference?
gin | ginn |
A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
(uncountable) gin rummy
(poker) drawing the best card or combination of cards
(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
(obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
A snare or trap for game.
A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
A pile driver.
A windpump.
A cotton gin.
An instrument of torture worked with screws.
To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
To trap something in a gin.
To invent (via Irish), see gin up
(archaic) To begin.
An Aboriginal woman.
* 1869 , Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia , Volume 1,
* 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked , Angus & Robertson, 1995, p.179,
* 2008 , Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia ,
* {{quote-book, year=, author=The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (1810-1897), title=Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=AZA'ZEL, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of "smokeless fire," that is, the fire of the Simoom. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Andrew Lang, title=In the Wrong Paradise, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There also were the "maids of modest glances," previously indifferent to the wooing "of man or ginn ." }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), title=The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn . }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Charles Reade (1814-1884) and Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), title=Foul Play, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You ginn it us hot--you did. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Lawrence J. Burpee, title=Humour of the North, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Well, the doctor axed me to vote for his son, and I just up and told him I would, only my relation was candidating also; but ginn him my hand and promise I would be neuter. }}
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As a symbol gin
is the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for guinea.As a noun ginn is
.As a verb ginn is
.gin
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from (etyl) . Hence Gin rummy (first attested 1941).Noun
(wikipedia gin)Derived terms
* bathtub gin * sloe ginReferences
* *Etymology 2
Aphetism of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
Verb
(ginn)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
Etymology 4
From (etyl) dyin, but having acquired a derogatory tone., Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.Noun
(en noun)page 273,
- His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
- Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.
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- But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.
Synonyms
* lubraDerived terms
* gin burglar * gin burglary * gin hunter * gin jockey * gin shepherd * gin stealer * gin’s pissReferences
Anagrams
* ----ginn
English
Etymology 1
Noun
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Etymology 2
Verb
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