קאָקטייל

Yiddish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English cocktail, via Russian кокте́йль (koktéjlʹ), especially the second sense. Compare Polish koktajl.

Noun edit

קאָקטייל • (kokteyl) m, plural קאָקטיילן (kokteyln)

cocktail
shake, milkshake
Synonym: שוימקע (shoymke)

References edit

Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl; Glasser, Paul (2016), “קאָקטייל”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press