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pineapple juice

pineapple juice

4 1.0
A sweet drink made from pineapples
  • noun
  • /ˈpaɪnˌæpəl dʒuːs/
translation icon : jugo de piña
  • On a hot day, nothing beats a cold drink of pineapple juice to quench your thirst.
  • fresh pineapple juice
  • unsweetened pineapple juice
  • orange and pineapple juice

Blue water, fluffy white clouds, and delicious pineapple juice.

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Examples

  • Orange and pineapple juice were freshly squeezed every morning.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Get some rum and pineapple juice.

  • I think I want some pineapple juice.

  • You guys want me to get you some pineapple juice?

  • I'll have a pineapple juice.

  • I think I'll stick to the straight pineapple juice, Jack.

  • One Saturday, I brought her a piece of toast and some pineapple juice, her favorite.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Aren't you gonna drink your pineapple juice?

  • Some people use pineapple juice as a mixer in larger drinks.

    Blog text (23)
  • Got any pineapple juice?

Surface Forms

Morphology

pineapple + juice

The meaning 'the sweet liquid obtained from pineapples' is directly and compositionally derived from 'pineapple' (tropical fruit) + 'juice' (liquid from plants). This noun+noun compound pattern is highly productive and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.

Etymology

Pineapple juice is the sweet liquid squeezed from the fruit called a pineapple, a name English people gave because the fruit looked like a pine cone. So it means the 'sweet drink' you get from a pineapple and use for drinking or cooking.