Meaning of martinus | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“On their first appearance in May, the Canadian clowns did a 14-minute parody of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar called Rinse the Blood Of My Toga. Wayne, draped in a toga, sidled up to an ancient Roman bistro and said, “Let⟳ me have⟳ a Martinus.” Shuster, togaed as a bartender, corrected him, “You mean⟳ Martini.” Wayne snapped back, “If I want⟳ two, I’ll ask⟳ for them.” / Overnight, New York bars were calling a single Martini a “Martinus.” And all over the U.S., people were echoing the line of Caesar’s wife, “I told him. I said, ‘Julie, don’t go!’””

“An intellectual type⟳ we know⟳ stopped in at a bar the other day and asked for a martinus. “Don’t you mean⟳ a martini?” asked the bartender. Our egghead looked at him coldly. “If I had wanted two,” he said, “I would have⟳ asked for them.””

“A Harvard freshman stepped into a New York bar and said, “One dry martinus.” / The bartender grinned. “I guess⟳ you mean⟳ a dry martini, don’t you?” / The freshman shook his head. “If I wanted more than one,” he cracked, “I would have⟳ asked for them.””

“I cheated on the zucchino. Normally I would say⟳ zucchini, but I couldn't bring⟳ myself to write⟳ that when there was only one of them. (Gimme a martinus!) I should have⟳ added, by the way, that this is the vegetable that's called a courgette in England.”

“> Wouldn't "macaroni" already be plural? One macaronus, many macaroni. / Dunno. I'll have⟳ a martinus and think⟳ about it.”

“> ...it's amore! Thank⟳, you, thank⟳ you very much. I'll be at the Palace all / > week. Buy⟳ that man in the front a martini! / > / > EdB / Thanks, but I'll only have⟳ one, that'd be a martinus then, painfully dry.”

“>That doesn't sound⟳ all that bad, but then anything / >would be an inprovement^([sic]) on a martini. But you'd have⟳ / >to put⟳ enough blueberries in it to kill⟳ the taste⟳ of / >the gin. / >Kate / i must confess i'm not a martinus drinker either.”

“If you send⟳ me a photograph of a snifter of your brandy, I'll photoshop it into a martinus with a marischino^([sic])-cherry-onna-stick and send⟳ it on to Princess O.”

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