vinegar
noun
a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.
vinegar-like
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a word derived from
vinegar.
Example Sentences
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The old fellow, in a black periwig, has a most vinegar-like aspect, and looks with great contempt at the frippery gentlewoman immediately before him.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
Nellie had managed to crush a handful of the vinegar-like globules, when she caught sight of another vine deeper in the woods.
From Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The resulting liquid is drunk at the end of ten days, and is sour and vinegar-like.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
