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Vinegar
Definitions
- 1 A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid. uncountable
"In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement."
- 2 sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative wordnet
- 3 Any variety of vinegar. countable
"a range of herb-flavoured vinegars"
- 4 dilute acetic acid wordnet
- 5 Vigor; vitality. US, countable, informal, uncountable
"You full of vinegar now, but you 'bout through / We gonna get a steam drill to do your share of driving / Then what's all them muscles gonna do? Huh, John Henry? / Gonna take a little bit of vinegar out of you."
- 1 To season or otherwise treat with vinegar. transitive
"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 […]"
Etymology
From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed (survived in Middle English eced).
From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed (survived in Middle English eced).
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