Noun: vinegar
| Singular | vinegar |
| Plural | vinegars |
Sample Sentences
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In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 220:]
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a range of herb-flavoured vinegars
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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. [1962, “The Legend of John Henry's Hammer”, performed by Johnny Cash:]
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[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. [2026 January 24, Linda Feldmann, “Rahm Emanuel for president? A Monitor event with Chicago’s former mayor.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]
Nouns inflected like vinegar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ō
4. Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder.
5. Proto-Italic *wīnom
6. Latin vīnum
7. Old French vin
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-rós
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós
11. Proto-Italic *akris
12. Classical Latin ācer
13. Late Latin ācrus
14. Old French aigre
15. Old French vinaigrebor.
16. Middle English vynegre
17. English vinegar
18. 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). See: Middle English Nouns '
vynegre', Latin Nouns '
vīnum', Latin Nouns '
ācer'.
Verbs referencing "vinegar"
English Nouns
beeregar.