Editing Cocktail (section)

=== Folk etymologies ===
Other origins have been suggested, as [[Language change|corruptions]] of other words or phrases. These can be dismissed as [[folk etymology|folk etymologies]], given the well-attested term "cock-tail" for a horse.

[[Dale DeGroff]] hypothesizes that the word evolved from the French {{lang|fr|coquetier}}, for an eggcup in which Antoine A. Peychaud, creator of [[Peychaud's Bitters]], allegedly used to serve his guests a mix of cognac with a dash of his bitters.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Craft of the Cocktail|last=DeGroff|first=Dale|publisher=Clarkson Potter|year=2002|isbn=0-609-60875-4|location=New York City|pages=6|language=en}}</ref>

Several authors have theorized that "cocktail" may be a [[Language change|corruption]] of "[[cock ale]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=cocktail, adj. and n.|url=https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/35499|url-status=live|access-date=April 19, 2021|website=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|archive-date=April 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419150617/https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/35499}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=(the Wordsmith)|first=Chrysti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neH-xQQWbowC|title=Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word & Phrase Origins|publisher=Farcountry Press|year=2004|isbn=9781560372653|pages=68|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805062559/https://books.google.com/books?id=neH-xQQWbowC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Powers|first=Madelon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99IDuIGxckcC|title=Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|year=1998|isbn=9780226677682|pages=272–273|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223215848/https://books.google.com/books?id=99IDuIGxckcC|url-status=live}}</ref>