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vinegar

vinegar

140 1.2
A sour liquid from wine or cider used to flavor food and clean
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪnɪɡər/
translation icon : vinagre
  • Grace had taken one sip and declared the wine vinegar, but he believed her palate was off.
  • white vinegar
  • salt and vinegar
  • oil and vinegar

And balsamic vinegar on my brand new hoodie.

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Examples

  • Do you have any balsamic vinegar?

  • Just now I saw Big Hat in town buying vinegar and soy sauce.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • - I smell vinegar in here tonight.

  • And we all know what happens when we add vinegar to milk.

  • Yeah, probably vinegar and another kind of acid.

  • It's like oil and vinegar in a dressing.

  • This is just sugar and white vinegar, this time from sugar cane.

  • And there are three people tasting the vinegar with a cup.

  • In Egypt, like ancient Egypt, they would make vinegar teas for people who had diabetes.

  • I use vinegar to make my salad dressings taste tangy and fresh.

Synonyms

wine vinegar
vsvinegar
7 2.0

A sour liquid made from wine used for cooking and salad dressing

is the broad product made from many types of fermented alcoholic liquids
cider vinegar
vsvinegar
7 2.3

A sour liquid made from apples that you use to flavor food like salads

is the general product from various fermented alcoholic liquids
acetum
vsvinegar
  • Archaic
9.9

A sour liquid made from wine or cider used to flavor and preserve food

is the everyday term that also covers cleaning use
chili vinegar
vsvinegar
  • US
2.8

A sour liquid made with chili peppers to make food spicy

is the plain sour liquid used for flavoring without spicy additions

Idioms

piss and vinegar
  • Offensive
3 9.9

A strong feeling of energy and eagerness to do things, sometimes with anger

To try to get people to agree by being harsh or unpleasant

Compounds

7 2.0

A sour liquid made from wine used for cooking and salad dressing

A sour liquid made from apples that you use to flavor food like salads

2.8

A sour liquid made with chili peppers to make food spicy

vinegar eel
  • Specialized
9.9

A very small worm that lives in vinegar and similar liquids

A small fly that lays eggs on rotting fruit or open jars of sweet food

9.9

A North American shrub or small tree with groups of bright red berries

vinegar worm
  • Specialized
9.9

A very small worm that lives in vinegar and eats tiny living things that make it turn sour

wood vinegar
  • Specialized
9.0

A reddish-brown liquid that comes from heating wood and cooling the smoke

How Sour

acetic acid
  • Specialized
4.2
vinegar
140 1.2
wine vinegar
7 2.0

Surface Forms

vinegar singular
vinegars plural

Etymology

Vinegar comes from old words vin 'wine' and aigre 'sour', so it originally meant 'sour wine'. That's why vinegar has a sharp taste and is used to preserve, flavor, or clean.