gimlet英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.

— The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.

— We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. “They don't know how to make them here,” he said. “What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”

动词 v.

To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).

— Then there was an awful silence. The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.
To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet. transitive

词形变化

gimlets plural gimlets present,singular,third-person gimleting participle,present gimletting participle,present gimleted participle,past gimleted past gimletted participle,past gimletted past

词汇关系

衍生词

gimlet-eyed gimlety

词源

词源 1

From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in Modern French as gibelet.
Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).

词源 2

From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in Modern French as gibelet.
Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).