VINEGARとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced 古期英語 æċed (survived in 中期英語 eced).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɪnəɡə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/
• ハイフネーション: vin‧e‧gar
• 韻: -ɪnəɡə(ɹ)

名詞

vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)

1. (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 220:

     In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.

2. (countable) Any variety of vinegar.

   a range of herb-flavoured vinegars

3. (informal, US) Vigor; vitality.
   • 1962, “The Legend of John Henry's Hammer”, performed by Johnny Cash:

     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.

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参考

• non-brewed condiment

動詞

vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)

1. (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     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 […]

派生語

• vinegared
• vinegaring

アナグラム

• Ginevra, Ingrave, avering, ingrave, reaving, vaginer