cocktail
cock + tail
Mixed Drink
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1. an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or several spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as fruit juice, lemonade, or cream:
カクテル〘ジン･ウォッカ･ラムなどがベースの混合酒; martini, Bloody Mary, daiquiriなど〙
a cocktail bar
as modifier : cocktail parties.
cocktail-party effect : (心理学) カクテルパーティ効果
a mixture of substances or factors, especially when dangerous or unpleasant in its effects:
〖しばしばa ～〗 (害を及ぼす)混合物, 取り合わせ
a cocktail of drugs with severe side effects
financial pressure plus isolation can be a deadly cocktail for some people.
2. a dish consisting of small pieces of food, typically served cold at the beginning of a meal as an appetizer:
(小さく切ったエビ･フルーツなどの)カクテル(サラダ)〘通例前菜として供される〙.
a chilled lobster cocktail prettily presented in a martini glass.
ORIGIN
early 17th century: from cock+ tail. The original use was as an adjective describing a creature with a tail like that of a cock, specifically a horse with a docked tail; hence (because hunters and coach-horses were generally docked) a racehorse which was not a thoroughbred, having a cock-tailed horse in its pedigree (early 19th century). cocktail (sense 1) (originally US, also early 19th century) is perhaps analogous, from the idea of an adulterated spirit.