# vinegar
## English
### 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).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɪnəɡə/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: vin‧e‧gar
* Rhymes: -ɪnəɡə(ɹ)

### 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
* (informal, US) Vigor; vitality.
** 1962, “The Legend of John Henry's Hammer”, performed by Johnny Cash: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.

#### Derived terms

* age like vinegar
* apple cider vinegar
* aromatic vinegar
* balsamic vinegar
* cane vinegar
* champagne vinegar
* chili vinegar
* Chinese red vinegar
* Chinkiang vinegar
* cider vinegar
* coconut vinegar
* four thieves' vinegar
* fruit vinegar
* full of piss and vinegar
* herb vinegar
* honey catches more flies than vinegar
* horticultural vinegar
* it is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey
* malt vinegar
* Marseilles vinegar
* mint vinegar
* mother of vinegar
* piss and vinegar
* pith and vinegar
* pyroligneous vinegar
* quick vinegar
* radical vinegar
* raspberry vinegar
* rice vinegar
* rose vinegar
* salt and vinegar
* sherry vinegar
* spiced vinegar
* spirit vinegar
* spit and vinegar
* sugar-vinegar
* sweetened vinegar
* tarragon vinegar
* thieves' vinegar
* toilet vinegar
* vinegar beer
* vinegar Bible
* vinegar car
* vinegar eel, vinegar-eel
* vinegar essence
* vinegarette
* vinegar-field
* vinegar fly, vinegar-fly
* vinegarish
* vinegarist
* vinegar lamp
* vinegar mother
* vinegar pie
* vinegar plant, vinegar-plant
* vinegar-railing
* vinegarrette
* vinegar rice
* vinegar stick
* vinegar stroke
* 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
* you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
* you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
* you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
* you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
* you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

#### Related terms

* vinagrous
* vinaigrette
* vinaigrous
* vinegaroon, vinegarroon

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: ビネガー (binegā)
* → Welsh: finegr

#### See also

* non-brewed condiment

### 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.
** 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC: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 […]

#### Derived terms

* vinegared
* vinegaring

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Ginevra, Ingrave, avering, ingrave, reaving, vaginer