mojito

[ moh-hee-toh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

mojito

/ məˈhiːtəʊ /

Origin of mojito¹

First recorded in 1930–35; from Latin American Spanish (Cuba), diminutive of Spanish mojo orange sauce or marinade, from mojar “to make wet”

Origin of mojito¹

C20: Spanish, diminutive of mojo wet

There’s a restaurant in a hip neighborhood of Cape Town that serves a mean mojito.

From Ozy

I order a mojito, and we smoke some cigars and watch the crowd of stylish, late-twenty-somethings mingling poolside.

When Galliano sat down next to them afterward, he noted, a waitress came quickly with a mojito for the famous designer.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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