Noun: gin
Sample Sentences
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Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
Nouns inflected like gin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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). See: Dutch Nouns '
genever', Latin Nouns '
iūniperus'.
Verbs referencing "gin"
Finnish Nouns
gin, French Nouns
gin, Romanian Nouns
gin, Swedish Nouns
gin, German Nouns
Gin, Finnish Nouns
gini, Russian Nouns
джин, Dutch Nouns
gijn.