Minicast Bonus: Cocktail

Minicast Bonus: Cocktail

Update: 2025-12-19
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In this bonus A Way with Words minicast, Martha and Grant look into the myriad stories behind the word cocktail. Does the drink name come from feathers? Horses? Something up a horse’s rump? It’s a weird wandering down etymology lane…


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Minicast Bonus: Cocktail

Minicast Bonus: Cocktail

Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.