bad·min·ton Pronunciation Key (bdmntn, -mtn) n. A sport played by volleying a shuttlecock back and forth over a high narrow net by means of a light, long-handled racket. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [After Badminton, the Duke of Beaufort's country seat in western England.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- badminton \Bad"min*ton\, n. [From the name of the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in England.] 1. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. 2. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- badminton n : a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
Thank you Kwun for that precise, informative, authoritative, and educational definition of badminton.
I thought the lightness of the racket depended on the person who is going to use. I thought there were never subjective things in Def. I am surprised though when they say light and long handled. I think Tennis has a longer handle and squash something equal. So how can they ever define a thing with reference to something else. So i would not subscribe to the views of the guy who defined it. I am just trying to draw up an useless argument. So if u jobless too then post here.
yeah. i thought the definition is kinda strange too. similar to lawn tennis ?!? does anyone have an encyclopedia? the explanation there may be more accurate.
Don't try this at home I made the drink. Awful, like a cheap wine cooler teenagers would buy when they decided it would be cool to drink. The english aristocracy must have been hard up to have invented this.
marshall, you are indeed the badminton fanatic. i didn't even pay attention to that drink definition. i did a little bit of searching on the web, here is the recipe for everybody who'd like to try. what a strange set of ingredients for a drink!
Cucumber OK, the nutmeg sounds weird, but the Brits seem to like the cucumber as a cocktail ingredient. When I lived in London, my landlady, who by the way had a dangerously close relationship to the bottle, taught me the recipe of Pimm's Cup, where the cucumber it a vital ingredient. It's still one of my summer favourites, but Pimm's is hard to get hold of here in Sweden...
