cocktailedadj.1
/ˈkɒkteɪld/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌteɪld/ 1. Designating a horse with a docked tail which sticks up. Now historical and rare.Docking the tail in this way was a common practice for hunting and stagecoach horses in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of tail
docked1408
stug-tailed1575
curtal1576
curtailed1591
bushya1609
bobbed1658
undocked1677
flisk1680
rat-tailed1684
strunted1688
bob1709
cocktailed1763
switched1769
cocked1775
nick-tailed1840
1763 St. James's Chron. 4–6 Jan. A bay cock-tail'd Horse, about 14 Hands.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 290 They got an English cock-tailed nag, and set him to the business.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VIII. 379 A cock-tailed horse is a good mark for a dragoon if you can get a side view of him.
1971 H. King Richard Bourke iv. 41 Lieutenant-Colonel Bourke..was astute enough to put up a good show with his new uniform and ‘cocktailed’ horse.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having erect tail
cocktail1750
cocktailed1798
1798 Anti-Jacobin 16 Apr. 182/1 Six cock-tail'd Mice transport her to the Ball, And liveried Lizards wait upon her call.
1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 317 He was such a dear little cock-tail'd pup.
1909 J. M. Boraston Brit. Birds & their Eggs 57 The rotund, bustling, cocktailed little personage known as the Common Wren.
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cocktailed beetle n. now rare any of various rove beetles which habitually raise the hind end and open the jaws in a threatening manner when alarmed, esp. the devil's coach-horse Ocypus olens; = cocktail n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Staphylinidae > member of (rove-beetle) > goerius olens (cocktail, devil's coach-horse)
devil's coach-horse?1800
cocktail1829
cocktailed beetle1861
1861 J. G. Wood Common Objects Microscope vi. 122 Figs. 3 and 5 are from two minute species of Cock-tailed Beetles (Staphylinidæ).
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iv. 48 Like a ‘devil's coach-horse’. [Note] The cock-tailed beetle has earned this name.
1974 J. E. Barlough Archaicon 77 Devil's Coach-horse, a popular name for the large rove-beetle (Goerius olens)..; often, any cock-tailed beetle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
cocktailedadj.2
/ˈkɒkteɪld/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌteɪld/ Affected by drinking cocktails; drunk on cocktails.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > with specific drink
wine-drunkenOE
in wine1594
wine-belly1603
wine-sprung1633
wined1640
citroned1754
genevered1755
sherry1770
toddied1842
beer-bemuddled1848
cocktailed1856
pinko1917
beered-up1933
1856 Harper's Mag. Dec. 66/1 Cocktailed past the point of nervousness and remorse, he dresses himself.
1937 Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Gaz. 11 Oct. 4/2 He is far less picky and grouchy than his cocktailed friend.
1998 Orange County (Calif.) Register 13 Jan. (Sports section) 6/6 Short of a libel suit, I'm pretty sure the guy was cocktailed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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