May 30, 2021 · Pre-1900, “gin up” is what the writers think is AAVE and means “giving up” or “given up.” Ginger up is British as well as American and seems to mean “enthuse.” “Gin up” as slang could draw on Prohibition, when people made “bathtub gin” as well as moonshine. Cook up, gin up. As usual with NGram, caveats apply. –

Mar 25, 2011 · The Athletics' radio announcers used the term, too. The connection of baseball players to gin rummy is quite strong because gin rummy is one of the main card games traditionally played in major league clubhouses, a fact mentioned by …

A martini is simply gin (or vodka) with some proportion of vermouth (the relative proportion determines whether it is "dry" - almost purely gin or vodka - or "wet" - more vermouth.) It can be garnished with an olive or a lemon twist.

You might do better over at ELL, Gin. But your question as it now stands is subtly different, with 'fifty' being a rough figure (5 couldn't be in normal conversation) – and so, I'd say, belongs here.

Jan 20, 2011 · Being informed by a friend and countryman of mine (an Irish Gentleman) that there was an advertisement made its appearance in your paper a few days ago, offering a reward, to any one who should return a noggin of Gin to Jasper Dwight Esq. whom you in a mistake of the press call Jasper Traytor; and conceiving the publication was pointed at me ...

Dec 23, 2010 · I am studying PhD at the university. I am studying PhD in the university. In the above, both sentences are wrong.

Dec 15, 2014 · ori­gin; ma­te­ri­al; at­trib­u­tive noun; And sum­ma­rizes with: If there’s def­i­nite­ly a mean­ing dif­fer­ence be­tween dif­fer­ent ad­jec­tive or­der­ings, let that de­ter­mine how you or­der them, and don’t use com­mas. If you can’t find a mean­ing dif­fer­ence, don’t go …

Jan 20, 2011 · If the stem of the word ends in a soft c (pronounced like the c in cell) or a soft g (pronounced like the g in gin), then the ending will be -ence. For example: ADOLESCENCE indulgence (...) Again, some words don’t follow these rules (or the ‘rules’ have several exceptions, so can be rather difficult to learn).

Jan 11, 2013 · Dutch courage used to refer specifically first to "Dutch gin" (jenever), then to British gin when William III (who was Dutch) encouraged its production and taxed imported alcohol. The rest owe much to either this period or the Anglo-Dutch wars, and hence are found in the UK as well as the US, where they were popular because the Anglo-Dutch wars ...

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