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GinEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
A Hanyu Pinyin-esque romanization of Vietnamese Kinh (京).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ginEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ginEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ginEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ginEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Inherited from Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ginEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ginEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Cognate to Scots gin (“if”): perhaps from gi(v)en, or a compound in which the first element is from Old English ġif (English if) and the second is cognate to English an (“if”) (compare iffen), or perhaps from again.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- GinEnglish · e-38538-2944
Gin, jin, n. Same as Geneva, of which it is a contraction.—ns. Gin′-fizz, a drink of gin, lemon-juice, effervescing water, &c.; Gin-pal′ace, Gin′-shop, a shop where gin is sold; Gin′-sling, a cold beverage of gin and wat
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Gin, jin, n. the name of a variety of machines, esp. one with pulleys for raising weights, &c.: a pump worked by rotary sails: (B.) a trap or snare.—v.t. to trap or snare: to clear cotton of its seeds by a machine:—pr.p.
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Gin, jin, n. an Australian native woman.
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Gin, gin, v.i. to begin.—n. Gin′ning, beginning.
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Gin, gin, a prov. form of against.
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Gin, gin, a Scotch form of gif=if.
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