vinegar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-?
Proto-Indo-European *-ō?
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō
Proto-Italic *wīnom
Latin vīnum
Old French vin
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós
Proto-Italic *akris
Classical Latin ācer
Late Latin ācrus
Old French aigre
Old French vinaigrebor.
Middle English vynegre
English vinegar
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).
Inflected forms:
form: vinegars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vinegars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vinegaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vinegared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vinegared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
gloss: Any variety of vinegar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a range of herb-flavoured vinegars
gloss: Vigor; vitality.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: 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.
[Rahm Emanuel] was full of vinegar on his proposal of mandatory retirement at age 75 for the president and the rest of the executive branch, as well as Congress and the judiciary.
gloss: To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 […]
Related words: vinagrous
vinaigrette
vinaigrous
vinegaroon
vinegarroon
non-brewed condiment
Derived words: 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
drinking 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
palm vinegar
piss and vinegar
pith and vinegar
prophylactic 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 of the four thieves
vinegar pie
vinegar plant
vinegar-plant
vinegar-railing
vinegarrette
vinegar rice
vinegar slaw
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
Zhenjiang vinegar
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