fruity cocktail
- noun
- /ˈfruːti ˈkɒkteɪl/
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cóctel afrutado
- The beach bar offered a variety of fruity cocktails, each garnished with colorful umbrellas and fresh fruit.
Examples
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This will sound embarrassingly stereotypical, but in college, when I first started drinking, I initially gravitated to fruity cocktails and things like Mike's Hard Lemonade.
Blog text (19) -
But it isn't just the conspicuous absence of tacky souvenirs and fruity cocktails in plastic hand grenades that made Gray bring me here.
Academic text (2002) -
On a hot summer day, nothing beats a fruity cocktail served over ice with fresh slices of orange.
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He celebrated his birthday by enjoying a fruity cocktail made with pineapple and mango juices.
Synonyms
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A cold drink made by mixing different kinds of alcohol and other ingredients
How Fruity
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'fruity' (having a fruit taste) modifying 'cocktail' (an alcoholic mixed drink); there is no idiomatic shift. This simple adjective + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and thus a B1 learner who knows both words would reliably infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun fruity cocktail comes from the simple image of mixing fruity juices or pieces of fruit with alcohol into one cocktail glass. So, it now means 'a sweet drink with alcohol and strong fruit flavor'.