vinegar
English
Etymology
From Middle English vynegre, borrowed from Old French vinaigre. Displaced Old English æced
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/
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Noun
vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)
- (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
- (countable) Any variety of vinegar.
- a range of herb-flavoured vinegars
Derived terms
Terms derived from "vinegar"
- apple cider vinegar
- aromatic vinegar
- balsamic vinegar
- cane vinegar
- champagne vinegar
- chili vinegar
- Chinese red vinegar
- cider vinegar
- coconut vinegar
- fruit vinegar
- full of piss and vinegar
- herb vinegar
- it is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey
- malt vinegar
- mother of vinegar
- piss and vinegar
- pyroligneous vinegar
- quick vinegar
- radical vinegar
- raspberry vinegar
- rice vinegar
- rose vinegar
- salt and vinegar
- sherry vinegar
- spiced vinegar
- sugar-vinegar
- sweetened vinegar
- tarragon vinegar
- thieves' vinegar
- toilet vinegar
- vinegar beer
- vinegar Bible
- vinegar car
- vinegar eel, vinegar-eel
- vinegar essence
- vinegarette
- vinegarrette
- vinegar-field
- vinegar fly, vinegar-fly
- vinegarish
- vinegarist
- vinegar lamp
- vinegar mother
- vinegar pie
- vinegar plant, vinegar-plant
- vinegar-railing
- vinegar rice
- vinegar stick
- vinegar strokes
- vinegar syndrome
- vinegar tree, vinegar-tree
- vinegar valentine
- vinegar weed, vinegarweed
- vinegar worm
- vinegary
- vinegar-yard
- white vinegar
- wine vinegar
- wish one at vinegar
- wood vinegar
Related terms
Terms etymologically related to "vinegar"
Translations
condiment
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Verb
vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)
- (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
- Charles Dickens
- Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]
- Charles Dickens
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