See martinus on Wiktionary
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"text": "I cheated on the zucchino. Normally I would say zucchini, but I couldn't bring myself to write that when there was only one of them. (Gimme a martinus!) I should have added, by the way, that this is the vegetable that's called a courgette in England.",
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"text": "> Wouldn't \"macaroni\" already be plural? One macaronus, many macaroni. / Dunno. I'll have a martinus and think about it.",
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"text": "> ...it's amore! Thank, you, thank you very much. I'll be at the Palace all / > week. Buy that man in the front a martini! / > / > EdB / Thanks, but I'll only have one, that'd be a martinus then, painfully dry.",
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"text": ">That doesn't sound all that bad, but then anything / >would be an inprovement^([sic]) on a martini. But you'd have / >to put enough blueberries in it to kill the taste of / >the gin. / >Kate / i must confess i'm not a martinus drinker either.",
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"ref": "2006 July 30, Ærchie, “Re: The ultimate cross over...”, in alt.fan.goons (Usenet), message-ID <dprpc2dp2fprqerd3pjs569jn37dhqj310@4ax.com>:",
"text": "If you send me a photograph of a snifter of your brandy, I'll photoshop it into a martinus with a marischino^([sic])-cherry-onna-stick and send it on to Princess O.",
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