vinegar : Idioms & Phrases

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Aromatic vinegar

  • strong acetic acid highly flavored with aromatic substances.
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chili vinegar

  • noun fiery vinegar flavored with chili peppers
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cider vinegar

  • noun vinegar made from cider
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Mother of vinegar

  • . See 4th Mother.
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Quick vinegar

  • vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
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Radical vinegar

  • acetic acid.
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Thieves' vinegar

  • a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. Eng.
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Vinegar eel

  • noun minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar
    Turbatrix aceti; vinegar eel; Anguillula aceti.
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  • (Zoöl.), a minute nematode worm (Leptodera oxophila, or Anguillula acetiglutinis), commonly found in great numbers in vinegar, sour paste, and other fermenting vegetable substances; called also vinegar worm.
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vinegar fly

  • noun flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves
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vinegar joe stilwell

  • noun United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946)
    Joseph Warren Stilwell; Stilwell; Uncle Joe.
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Vinegar lamp

  • (Chem.), a fanciful name of an apparatus designed to oxidize alcohol to acetic acid by means of platinum.
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Vinegar plant

  • . See 4th Mother.
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Vinegar tree

  • noun deciduous shrubby tree or eastern North America with compound leaves that turn brilliant red in fall and dense panicles of greenish yellow flowers followed by crimson acidic berries
    staghorn sumac; velvet sumac; Rhus typhina; Virginian sumac.
  • noun common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries
    smooth sumac; Rhus glabra; scarlet sumac.
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  • (Bot.), the stag-horn sumac (Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar.
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vinegar worm

  • noun minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar
    Turbatrix aceti; vinegar eel; Anguillula aceti.
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Wine vinegar

  • noun vinegar made from wine
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  • vinegar made from wine.
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Wood acid, Wood vinegar

  • (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called pyroligneous acid.
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Wood vinegar

  • noun a red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tars
    pyroligneous acid.
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  • . See Wood acid, above.
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