mojito

noun

mo·​ji·​to mō-ˈhē-tō How to pronounce mojito (audio)
plural mojitos
: a cocktail made of rum, sugar, mint, lime juice, and soda water

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The group’s other restaurant, Old’s Havana Cuban Bar & Cocina, evokes La Bodeguita del Medio, the mojito temple in Old Havana that won over tourists and locals with walls covered in visitors’ signatures. Sarah Moreno may 12, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026 InStyle fun, enjoying a blueberry mojito made with her own Ten to One rum. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026 Add color and flavor to your go-to minty mojito with strawberry simple syrup. Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026 The water menu’s passion fruit mojito ($14) the void’s sole entry, Reincarnation ($13), stretches the stylistic continuity of the moody restaurant. Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mojito

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Cuban Spanish, diminutive of mojo mojo

Note: The unsuffixed word mojo is recorded in the sense "bebida compuesta de ron, azúcar, limón y agua gaseosa" ("drink consisting of rum, sugar, lemon y soda water") in Un catauro de cubanismos: apuntes lexicográficos (Havana: 1923) by the Cuban essayist and scholar Fernando Ortiz, a collection originally published a year earlier in the journal Revista bimestre cubana.

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mojito was in 1934

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“Mojito.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mojito. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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