gimlet
/ˈɡɪm.lət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.20 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I would find by the edge of that water / The collar-bone of a hare / Worn thin by the lapping of water, / And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare [...]"
- "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.”"
- "Yeah, a piece of advice — once you’re back in circulation, don’t keep topping off a lady’s vodka gimlet when she’s not looking."
- "By seven, dinner was under way, and a bottle of vodka gimlets and one of martinis were in the freezer, chilling."
- "Then there was an awful silence. The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes."
Etymology
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɪm.lət/
- British English: /ˈɡɪm.lət/