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Origins of the word Cocktail
The Oxford English Dictionary affirms that the original use of 'cocktail' described a horse with a tail like a cock's, that is, a docked tail that stuck...
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Armando vdG
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14 hours ago
Freud would perhaps have suggested yet another etymology.
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