单词 | cool-drink |
释义 | cool-drinkn. Originally Caribbean: a beverage, either fermented or unfermented, made with sugar and any of various aromatic ingredients. In later use more generally (also South African): a refreshing beverage, a soft drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > other drinks > [noun] Galianesc1386 tawnyc1430 Stygian liquor1638 cool-drink1667 pearl julep1680 ambrosia1685 content1699 amazake1727 carrot juice1772 arrowroot1822 fox-whelp1837 Badminton1845 bug juice1889 mahewu1936 Clamato1951 Arnold Palmer1991 Butterbeer1999 boba2000 1667 G. Warren Impart. Descr. Surinam iii. 8 The English Planters make their Cool Drink of the Juice of Sugar-Canes, and Water boyl'd together. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. Introd. p. xxix To make cool Drink, Take three Gallons of fair water, more than a Pint of Molossus, mix them together in a Jar; it works in twelve hours time sufficiently. 1789 J. Luffman Brief Acct. Island Antigua (ed. 2) ix. 37 Their common drink being weak punch, cool drink, lemonade, sorrel drink, and tamarind beverage, all of which are diluting. 1878 Gleaner (Jamaica) 30 Sept. A seller of spruce beer was charged..with having exposed rum for sale... The Detective..seized from the defendant a cool drink bottle filled with the spirit. 1932 Daily Gleaner (Jamaica) 8 Apr. 10/4 In the tumblers was served the gingerbeer, in the cans the cool-drink. 1953 D. Jacobson Long Way from London 53 We found the Africans sitting on the pavement in the sun,..drinking bottles of cool-drinks. 1979 M. Matshoba Call me not Man 162 Others had cans of warm ‘cool drink’ and beer. 1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 167/2 Cool-drink,..Any bottled, fizzy beverage sold commercially. 2007 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 7 June 8 A rusty, old cooldrink can. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667 |
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