Dictionary

daiquiri en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdaɪ.kɪ.ɹi/
• /ˈdæ.kə.ɹi/
• /ˈdæ.kɪ.ɹi/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdaɪ.kə.ɹi/

Etymology

Originated 1915–1920; from Cuban Spanish daiquiri, named after a beach on the south coast of Cuba, from Taíno.

Meanings

1. A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.
   • Or maybe you just believe that limes are for summer, best reserved for daiquiris and mojitos. That last argument is debatable, but defensible. In any case, El Presidente is less daiquiri and more Manhattan, less summer and more winter. 2019 December 14, Wayne Curtis, “Discover Cuba’s Other Rum Cocktail: El Presidente”, in Garden & Gun, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021:

Forms

Deriveds

Hemingway daiquiri · daiquiried · frozen daiquiri

Translations (6)

sv daiquiri (A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added) · es daiquiri (A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added) · fr ti-punch (A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added) · ru дайкири́ (A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added) · de Daiquiri (A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added) · fr daiquiri (A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added)