swizzle stick
3
5.9
- noun
- /ˈswɪzəl stɪk/
:
palito para mezclar
- Where's the swizzle stick?
Examples
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Jill was having gin ale, and she watched Nate playing with the swizzle stick in his whiskey sour.
Fiction book (1996) -
Would you like a swizzle stick in that?
Fiction book (2002) -
I poked myself in the eye with a swizzle stick.
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Are you sure that swizzle stick of yours is workin' right?
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"The next thing you know, everything right down to the swizzle sticks changed," Hunley says.
Blog text (29) -
Have you tried swizzling it vigorously with a swizzle stick?
Blog text (7) -
She has twisted her swizzle stick into a crooked helix and stares at it as if it might reveal her future.
Fiction book (2002) -
Sharon buys a few scarves, Arthur some knitted neckties and hand-carved swizzle sticks, just to be buying something.
Fiction book (2002) -
When I was straightening up the couch, I found six hairpins, a lipstick... a pair of false eyelashes and a swizzle stick from the Stork Club.
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Jill was having gin ale, and she watched Nate playing with the swizzle stick in his whiskey sour.
Synonyms
5
2.1
A small tool used to mix drinks or liquids
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is transparently compositional: 'swizzle' (to stir or mix a drink) combined with 'stick' (a small rod) yields a rod used for swizzling/stirring drinks, so the referent is directly predictable from the parts. This follows regular English compound formation and aligns with cross-linguistic equivalents (stirrer/stick), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the meaning.
Etymology
Swizzle stick may come from an old Caribbean way of mixing drinks, where people used a small forked branch and spun it between the hands to quickly swizzle rum, sugar and ice. That's why today a swizzle stick means the small stick used to 'stir' or 'mix' a 'cocktail'.