margarita

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiː.tə/(UK)
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/ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiː.tə/(UK) · /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/

Definition of margarita

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.
    “In the summer, he’s posted on the corner with his BMX sipping margarita from a styrofoam cup and in the winter he’s indoors with his PlayStation and blunt.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.
    “In the summer, he’s posted on the corner with his BMX sipping margarita from a styrofoam cup and in the winter he’s indoors with his PlayStation and blunt.”
  2. (alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of margarita.
    “Anyway, hope you don’t get this coz you’re off somewhere cool, sipping Margarita and getting over yourself.”
    “You: Gray hair, 50-ish, dark red button-up shirt, black pants, sipping Margarita alone at table.”
    “Sipping salty Margaritas I’d finally started to feel as if we’d lived through something terrible and world-altering but ridden it out, survived.”

name

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
    ““I didn’t think you loved me so much as this, my Margarita!” he said, in a broken voice. She did not answer, but she clung to him as a child clings to its mother, and the end was, they remained in town together. It seemed as though Fate interposed to prevent the two Margaritas meeting again.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás Proto-Iranian *mr̥gáhder. Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥ga-ahri-ita-der.? Ancient Greek μαργᾰρῑ́της (margărī́tēs)der. Latin margarītader. Spanish margaritabor. English margarita Borrowed from Spanish margarita. Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarite, Margherita, and marguerite.

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