Search for crossword answers and clues
Drunken pirate providing small drink
Answer for the clue "Drunken pirate providing small drink ", 8 letters:
aperitif
Alternative clues for the word aperitif
Word definitions for aperitif in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1894, "alcoholic drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite," from French apéritif "laxative, laxative liqueur," literally "opening," from Latin aperitivus , from aperire "to open" (see overt ). Compare Middle English apertive (adj.), a medical ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of apéritif English)
Usage examples of aperitif.
I reached for my memory of the earlier encounter but found it veiled by too much aperitif and the heady scent of the young woman beside me.
No elderly, overweight, unkempt and accented Polish Jew, long-retired from the snack bar business and needle trade, had ever managed an aperitif in the establishment, let alone membership.
I turned up for aperitifs with the passengers more or less at the point of a gun.
Antique mirrors, gold-lettered with advertisements for cigarettes and aperitifs, were fixed to every wall.
Different sorts, to make aperitif, like quinquina, or digestif, like anis.
The diplomats ordered a wild variety of mixed drinks and aperitifs, things with a twist of that, three jiggers of this, shaken and mixed just so, but once everyone had been served, the atmosphere relaxed considerably.
I was sipping an aperitif and had turned to Miss Giles to answer a question.
The diplomats ordered a wild variety of mixed drinks and aperitifs, things with a twist of that, three jiggers of this, shaken and mixed just so, but once everyone had been served, the atmosphere relaxed considerably.
While I drank an aperitif of glucose and dilute ascorbic acid, preparations for a big ceremony were going on around me.
He sipped his aperitif and nibbled on black Kalamata olives while scrutinizing the balance in his account.
Candied icicles for aperitif, ice burgers, fried avalanche, sludge freeze as a beverage, and snow cones for dessert.