一种蒸馏饮用酒,1714年,缩写自 geneva,受瑞士城市名称的影响,从荷兰语 genever “杜松子酒”,字面意思是“杜松”(因为酒精是用其浆果调味的),来自古法语 genevre “杜松植物”(12世纪),来自俗拉丁语 *jeniperus,来自拉丁语 juniperus “杜松”(参见 juniper)。
[I]t was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was probably, if we consider all the consequences that have flowed from it, the most momentous in that of the eighteenth century—incomparably more so than any event in the purely political or military annals of the country. [W.E.H. Lecky, "A History of England in the Eighteenth Century," 1878]
Gin and tonic 证实于1873年;gin-sling 证实于1790年;gin-fizz(加柠檬汁和汽水)来自1878年。Gin-mill,美国俚语意为“低级酒馆或酒廊,饮用烈酒的地方”(1872年)可能是对 gin (n.2) 的感官游戏。英国 gin-palace “华丽装饰的酒馆或酒廊,饮用烈酒的地方”来自1831年。另见: Old Tom。
纸牌游戏 gin rummy 首次证实于1941年(当年在《生活》中被描述为最新的好莱坞时尚);OED 将其列入酒精饮料的条目,但除了作为 rummy 的游戏,意义联系似乎不明显。