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vinegar

[ vin-i-ger ]

noun

  1. a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.
  2. Pharmacology. a solution of a medicinal substance in dilute acetic acid, or vinegar.
  3. sour or irritable speech, manner, or countenance:

    a note of vinegar in his voice.

  4. Informal. vigor; high spirits; vim.


vinegar

/ ˈvɪnɪɡə /

noun

  1. a sour-tasting liquid consisting of impure dilute acetic acid, made by oxidation of the ethyl alcohol in beer, wine, or cider. It is used as a condiment or preservative
  2. sourness or peevishness of temper, countenance, speech, etc
  3. pharmacol a medicinal solution in dilute acetic acid
  4. informal.
    vitality
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to apply vinegar to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈvinegarish, adjective
  • ˈvinegar-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • vine·gar·like adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vinegar1

1250–1300; Middle English vinegre < Old French, equivalent to vin wine + egre, aigre sour ( eager )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vinegar1

C13: from Old French vinaigre, from vin wine + aigre sour, from Latin acer sharp
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Example Sentences

“Materials don’t usually encounter a pH that’s that low, so it’s not like if you put PDKs in vinegar, the polymer is going to start breaking down,” Helms says.

Discard the bay leaf, then stir in the vinegar, and season to taste with additional salt and pepper, if desired.

Made with little more than tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt and spices, the umami-packed ingredient can help add a missing element to a dish.

Personally, I went for three varying dilutions of vinegar for cleaning and one water-only bottle for misting plants.

Take a bite of an onion, chase it with a shot of vinegar, and then finish with a chunk of lemon.

Caligula drank “pearls of great price dissolved in vinegar.”

Lohse and his beleaguered fellow pledges were, he claims, forced to chug vinegar and to dine on the dreaded “vomlet.”

Lexington (North Carolina) vinegar-pepper sauce comes in a small ramekin on the plate.

After a year, they would be washed with vinegar, dressed, and displayed.

Women would first bathe their feet in a mixture of vinegar and natural vegetation.

Narcotic poisons are neutralized by vinegar:—Narcotics … torpor … strong wine … sour wine … vinegar.

There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.

Battle of Vinegar hill, at which the Irish rebels were completely routed and the insurrection crushed.

Either of them, or distilled vinegar alone, may be rubbed into a bald patch with a tooth-brush.

At present, I am getting some sleep again, but I still eat mechanically, horsewise—rubbing my mouth with vinegar.

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