gin

gin (nominative singular)
giny (nominative plural)
ginu (genitive singular)
ginů (genitive plural)
ginu (dative singular)
ginům (dative plural)
gin (accusative singular)
giny (accusative plural)
gine (singular vocative)
giny (plural vocative)
ginu (locative singular)
ginech (locative plural)
ginem (instrumental singular)
giny (instrumental plural)


gin

A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

en-noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

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).


gin

(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.

The church dores were sparred,
Fast boltyd and barryd,
Yet wyth a prety gyn
I fortuned to come in, […]

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:

treason and deceiptfull gin

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.

It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.

1895, Thomas Hardy, “IV-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:

A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

An instrument of torture worked with screws.

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”).


gin

(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

(transitive) To trap something in a gin.

en-verb

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past and past participle ginned)

gins (present singular third-person)
ginning (participle present)
ginned (participle past)
ginned (past)

→ Italian: ginnare


gin

Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 14:

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past gan, past participle gun)

gins (present singular third-person)
ginning (participle present)
gan (past)
gun (participle past)

Inherited from Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen.


gin

His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.

1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, volume 1, page 273:

On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.

1879 December 31, “Obituary”, in The Hobart Mercury, page 2:

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.

How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin!

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XXI, in Capricornia, D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 353:

Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.

1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 179:

But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.

2008, Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia, unnumbered page:

(Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.

Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.


gin

[…]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it.

1605, Richard Verstegan, Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, in Antiquities: Concerning the Most Noble, and Renowned English Nation:

Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies.

An' gin I'm weel and can keep sober / You may look for it in October.

1809, Thomas Donaldson, Poems, section 76:

He's get han' and siller, / Gin he fancies me.

1815, Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, page 152:

yon felley at Barleigh has wrote farrantly (fairly) to my naunt; gin Robin could bur see ť letter he'd foind no fawt wi' me.

1860, J. P. K. Shuttleworth, Scarsdale; Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, Thirty Years Ago, page 158:

Wheeah, Ah thinks thee could, gin ye tried.

1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost; or, What came of a slip from 'honour bright'., page 19:

"Aw'd never ha slept i' mi bed gin that little un had bin dreawnded, an' me lookin' on loike a stump. Neay; that lass wur Bess, moi wench. We'n no notion wheer th' lad's mother is." Mr. Clough would have pressed the money upon him, but he put it back with a motion of his han.

1876, Mrs. George Linnaeus Banks, The Manchester Man, page 15:

[…] gin schoo sets off in a tantrum an' flaah's t'mistress wiv her blutherin […]

(chiefly Scotland, Northern England, Southern US, Appalachia) If.

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.


gin

(rare) Alternative spelling of gini (“gin”).

gin (nominative singular)
ginit (nominative plural)
gin (accusative nominative singular)
ginit (accusative nominative plural)
ginin (accusative genitive singular)
ginit (accusative genitive plural)
ginin (genitive singular)
ginien (genitive plural)
giniä (partitive singular)
ginejä (partitive plural)
ginissä (inessive singular)
gineissä (inessive plural)
ginistä (elative singular)
gineistä (elative plural)
giniin (illative singular)
gineihin (illative plural)
ginillä (adessive singular)
gineillä (adessive plural)
giniltä (ablative singular)
gineiltä (ablative plural)
ginille (allative singular)
gineille (allative plural)
gininä (essive singular)
gineinä (essive plural)
giniksi (singular translative)
gineiksi (plural translative)
ginittä (abessive singular)
gineittä (abessive plural)
ginein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ginini (nominative singular)
ginini (nominative plural)
ginini (accusative nominative singular)
ginini (accusative nominative plural)
ginini (accusative genitive singular)
ginini (accusative genitive plural)
ginini (genitive singular)
ginieni (genitive plural)
giniäni (partitive singular)
ginejäni (partitive plural)
ginissäni (inessive singular)
gineissäni (inessive plural)
ginistäni (elative singular)
gineistäni (elative plural)
giniini (illative singular)
gineihini (illative plural)
ginilläni (adessive singular)
gineilläni (adessive plural)
giniltäni (ablative singular)
gineiltäni (ablative plural)
ginilleni (allative singular)
gineilleni (allative plural)
gininäni (essive singular)
gineinäni (essive plural)
ginikseni (singular translative)
gineikseni (plural translative)
ginittäni (abessive singular)
gineittäni (abessive plural)
gineineni (comitative plural)
ginisi (nominative singular)
ginisi (nominative plural)
ginisi (accusative nominative singular)
ginisi (accusative nominative plural)
ginisi (accusative genitive singular)
ginisi (accusative genitive plural)
ginisi (genitive singular)
giniesi (genitive plural)
giniäsi (partitive singular)
ginejäsi (partitive plural)
ginissäsi (inessive singular)
gineissäsi (inessive plural)
ginistäsi (elative singular)
gineistäsi (elative plural)
giniisi (illative singular)
gineihisi (illative plural)
ginilläsi (adessive singular)
gineilläsi (adessive plural)
giniltäsi (ablative singular)
gineiltäsi (ablative plural)
ginillesi (allative singular)
gineillesi (allative plural)
gininäsi (essive singular)
gineinäsi (essive plural)
giniksesi (singular translative)
gineiksesi (plural translative)
ginittäsi (abessive singular)
gineittäsi (abessive plural)
gineinesi (comitative plural)
ginimme (nominative singular)
ginimme (nominative plural)
ginimme (accusative nominative singular)
ginimme (accusative nominative plural)
ginimme (accusative genitive singular)
ginimme (accusative genitive plural)
ginimme (genitive singular)
giniemme (genitive plural)
giniämme (partitive singular)
ginejämme (partitive plural)
ginissämme (inessive singular)
gineissämme (inessive plural)
ginistämme (elative singular)
gineistämme (elative plural)
giniimme (illative singular)
gineihimme (illative plural)
ginillämme (adessive singular)
gineillämme (adessive plural)
giniltämme (ablative singular)
gineiltämme (ablative plural)
ginillemme (allative singular)
gineillemme (allative plural)
gininämme (essive singular)
gineinämme (essive plural)
giniksemme (singular translative)
gineiksemme (plural translative)
ginittämme (abessive singular)
gineittämme (abessive plural)
gineinemme (comitative plural)
gininne (nominative singular)
gininne (nominative plural)
gininne (accusative nominative singular)
gininne (accusative nominative plural)
gininne (accusative genitive singular)
gininne (accusative genitive plural)
gininne (genitive singular)
ginienne (genitive plural)
giniänne (partitive singular)
ginejänne (partitive plural)
ginissänne (inessive singular)
gineissänne (inessive plural)
ginistänne (elative singular)
gineistänne (elative plural)
giniinne (illative singular)
gineihinne (illative plural)
ginillänne (adessive singular)
gineillänne (adessive plural)
giniltänne (ablative singular)
gineiltänne (ablative plural)
ginillenne (allative singular)
gineillenne (allative plural)
gininänne (essive singular)
gineinänne (essive plural)
giniksenne (singular translative)
gineiksenne (plural translative)
ginittänne (abessive singular)
gineittänne (abessive plural)
gineinenne (comitative plural)
gininsä (nominative singular)
gininsä (nominative plural)
gininsä (accusative nominative singular)
gininsä (accusative nominative plural)
gininsä (accusative genitive singular)
gininsä (accusative genitive plural)
gininsä (genitive singular)
giniensä (genitive plural)
giniään (partitive singular)
giniänsä (partitive singular)
ginejään (partitive plural)
ginejänsä (partitive plural)
ginissään (inessive singular)
ginissänsä (inessive singular)
gineissään (inessive plural)
gineissänsä (inessive plural)
ginistään (elative singular)
ginistänsä (elative singular)
gineistään (elative plural)
gineistänsä (elative plural)
giniinsä (illative singular)
gineihinsä (illative plural)
ginillään (adessive singular)
ginillänsä (adessive singular)
gineillään (adessive plural)
gineillänsä (adessive plural)
giniltään (ablative singular)
giniltänsä (ablative singular)
gineiltään (ablative plural)
gineiltänsä (ablative plural)
ginilleen (allative singular)
ginillensä (allative singular)
gineilleen (allative plural)
gineillensä (allative plural)
gininään (essive singular)
gininänsä (essive singular)
gineinään (essive plural)
gineinänsä (essive plural)
ginikseen (singular translative)
giniksensä (singular translative)
gineikseen (plural translative)
gineiksensä (plural translative)
ginittään (abessive singular)
ginittänsä (abessive singular)
gineittään (abessive plural)
gineittänsä (abessive plural)
gineineen (comitative plural)
gineinensä (comitative plural)


gin

head

gin f (genitive singular gine, nominative plural ginte)

gine (genitive singular)
ginte (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
gin (indefinite singular)
ginte (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a ghin (indefinite singular)
a ghinte (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
gine (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an ghin (definite singular)
na ginte (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na gine (definite singular)
na nginte (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an ngin (definite singular)
don ghin (definite singular)
leis na ginte (definite plural)

From Old Irish gein, verbal noun of gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)).


gin

give birth to (used only in the autonomous form)

germinate, sprout; spring forth; originate

head

gin (present analytic gineann, future analytic ginfidh, verbal noun giniúint, past participle ginte)

gineann (analytic present)
ginfidh (analytic future)
giniúint (noun-from-verb)
ginte (participle past)
ginim (first-person indicative present singular)
gineann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
ginir (indicative present second-person singular)
gineann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
ginimid (first-person indicative plural present)
gineann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
gineann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
ginid (indicative plural present third-person)
a ghineann (indicative present relative)
a ghineas (indicative present relative)
a ngineann (indicative present relative)
gintear (autonomous indicative present)
ghin mé (first-person indicative past singular)
ghineas (first-person indicative past singular)
ghin tú (indicative past second-person singular)
ghinis (indicative past second-person singular)
ghin sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
ghineamar (first-person indicative past plural)
ghin muid (first-person indicative past plural)
ghin sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
ghineabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
ghin siad (indicative past plural third-person)
ghineadar (indicative past plural third-person)
a ghin (indicative past relative)
ar ghin (indicative past relative)
gineadh (autonomous indicative past)
ghininn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
ngininn‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
ghinteá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
nginteá‡‡ (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
ghineadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
ngineadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
ghinimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ghineadh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
nginimis‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ngineadh muid‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
ghineadh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
ngineadh sibh‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
ghinidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
ghineadh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
nginidís‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
ngineadh siad‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a ghineadh (habitual indicative past relative)
a ngineadh (habitual indicative past relative)
ghintí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
ngintí‡‡ (autonomous habitual indicative past)
ginfidh mé (first-person future singular)
ginfead (first-person future singular)
ginfidh tú (future second-person singular)
ginfir (future second-person singular)
ginfidh sé (future singular third-person)
sí (future singular third-person)
ginfimid (first-person future plural)
ginfidh muid (first-person future plural)
ginfidh sibh (future plural second-person)
ginfidh siad (future plural third-person)
ginfid (future plural third-person)
a ghinfidh (future relative)
a ghinfeas (future relative)
a nginfidh (future relative)
ginfear (autonomous future)
ghinfinn (conditional first-person singular)
nginfinn‡‡ (conditional first-person singular)
ghinfeá (conditional second-person singular)
nginfeá‡‡ (conditional second-person singular)
ghinfeadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
nginfeadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (conditional singular third-person)
ghinfimis (conditional first-person plural)
ghinfeadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
nginfimis‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
nginfeadh muid‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
ghinfeadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
nginfeadh sibh‡‡ (conditional plural second-person)
ghinfidís (conditional plural third-person)
ghinfeadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
nginfidís‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
nginfeadh siad‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
a ghinfeadh (conditional relative)
a nginfeadh (conditional relative)
ghinfí (autonomous conditional)
nginfí‡‡ (autonomous conditional)
go ngine mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go nginead (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go ngine tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go nginir (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go ngine sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go nginimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go ngine muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go ngine sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go ngine siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go nginid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go ngintear (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá ngininn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá nginteá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá ngineadh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá nginimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá ngineadh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá ngineadh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá nginidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá ngineadh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá ngintí (autonomous past subjunctive)
ginim (first-person imperative singular)
gin (imperative second-person singular)
gineadh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
ginimis (first-person imperative plural)
ginigí (imperative plural second-person)
ginidh (imperative plural second-person)
ginidís (imperative plural third-person)
gintear (autonomous imperative)
giniúint (noun-from-verb)
ginte (participle past)
gin
ghin
ngin


gin

Mâ tant gin dé sœr.

(transitive) to have (to own, to possess)

(transitive) to have under one's control, in one's power

Mo gin swaf.

I'm thirsty. (literally, “I have thirst.”)

Mo gin pœr.

(transitive) to have (a condition), to be

Li gin 19 zan.

She's 19 years old. (literally, “She has 19 years.”)

(transitive) to get, to make (cause someone or something to do something)

Inherited from French gagner (“to earn, to gain”).


gin

gin (nominative singular)
giny (nominative plural)
ginu (genitive singular)
ginów (genitive plural)
ginowi (dative singular)
ginom (dative plural)
gin (accusative singular)
giny (accusative plural)
ginem (instrumental singular)
ginami (instrumental plural)
ginie (locative singular)
ginach (locative plural)
ginie (singular vocative)
giny (plural vocative)


gin

ginuri (plural)
gin (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
ginul (accusative definite nominative singular)
ginuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
ginurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
gin (indefinite singular)
ginului (definite singular)
ginuri (indefinite plural)
ginurilor (definite plural)
ginule (singular vocative)
ginurilor (plural vocative)


gin

Gin A war ye, A wad gang.

Then says the squire,
Gin that be all your fear,
She sanna want a man, for want of gear.
A thousand pounds a year, well burthen free,
I mak her sure of, gin she'll gang with me.

1778, Alexander Ross, Fortunate Shepherdess, page 124:

Cognate to dialectal English gin (“if”), which see for more.


gin

gin night


gin

gin (past ghin, future ginidh, verbal noun gintinn, past participle ginte)

ghin (past)
ginidh (future)
gintinn (noun-from-verb)
ginte (participle past)
gin
ghin

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)).


gin

(colloquial) (North Wales) first-person singular of gan

(colloquial) (North Wales) second-person singular of gan


gin

Gin we have no mo' maate, it maakes no mo' matter,

1927, “THE FORTH MAN'S GRACE AFTER A SCANTY DINNER”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 137, line 3:

[If we have no more meat, it makes no more matter,]


gin

ìyá gin uṣu lé ọmọ lọ́wọ́

The mother chipped off a small part of a yam to give to the child

(Igbomina) to chip off a small part of something

babá gin irun ọmọ náà

The father trimmed the edges of the child's hair

(Igbomina) to trim the edges of something with a razor