martinus

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, humorous, hypercorrect)Alternative form of martini.

   “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.”