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Definition gin

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (French genièvre), from Latin i?niperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

Noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

  1. 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.
  2. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
  3. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Etymology 2

Aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”).

Noun

gin (plural gins)

  1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
  2. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
  3. A snare or trap for game.
  4. 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.
  5. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  6. A pile driver.
  7. A windpump.
  8. A cotton gin.
  9. An instrument of torture worked with screws.
Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  2. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen, from Old English beginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnan?.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To begin.

Etymology 4

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

Noun

gin (plural gins)

  1. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.

Etymology 6

Cognate to Scots gin (“if”): perhaps from gi(v)en, or a compound in which the first element is from Old English ?if (English if) and the second is cognate to English an (“if”) (compare iffen), or perhaps from again.

Conjunction

gin

  1. (chiefly Southern US, Appalachia, Scotland) If.

Results 131 Words with the letters GIN

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5 letter words with the letters GIN 
ACING 11
AGING 10
AHING 10
APING 11
AWING 11
AXING 15
BEGIN 11
BEING 11
BINGE 11
BINGO 11
BLING 12
BOING 11
BRING 11
CLING 12
COIGN 11
CUING 12
DINGY 11
DYING 11
EKING 12
EXING 15
EYING 10
FEIGN 11
FLING 12
FUNGI 12
GAMIN 11
GENIC 11
GENIP 11
GINKS 12
GINNY 11
GIPON 11
GIVEN 12
GOING 10
GONIF 11
HINGE 10
HYING 12
ICING 11
INCOG 11
JINGO 17
KIANG 12
KINGS 12
LINGY 11
LUNGI 10
LYING 11
MINGY 13
NEIGH 10
NIGHS 10
NIGHT 10
OHING 10
OPING 11
OWING 11
PIING 11
PINGO 11
PINGS 11
SWING 11
THING 10
TYING 10
VYING 14
WIGAN 11
WINGS 11
WINGY 13
WRING 11
YOGIN 10
ZINGS 17
ZINGY 19
4 letter words with the letters GIN 
AGIN 7
DING 8
GAIN 7
GIEN 7
GINK 11
GINS 7
GIRN 7
GRIN 7
KING 11
LING 8
NIGH 9
PING 10
RING 7
SIGN 7
SING 7
TING 7
WING 10
ZING 16
3 letter words with the letters GIN 
GIN 6
2 letter words with the letters GIN 
GI 4
IN 3

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