Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the taste, smell, or nature of vinegar.
- adjective Unpleasant and irascible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Figuratively, sharp; sour-tempered.
- Having the character of vinegar; hence, sour; crabbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
sour , like vinegar - adjective figuratively
acerbic ,bitter - adjective of a liquid, having turned partially or fully to vinegar.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a sour disposition; ill-tempered
- adjective tasting or smelling like vinegar
Etymologies
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Examples
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The one we get from outside are always a bit more "vinegary" for me, so I was really happy with my Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing The bag of mixed spring greens was put to good use, combined with some dried cranberries and toasted pecans, mandarins, some baby tomatoes, a dash of olive oil and lime juice and some fresh black pepper.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The one we get from outside are always a bit more "vinegary" for me, so I was really happy with my Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing The bag of mixed spring greens was put to good use, combined with some dried cranberries and toasted pecans, mandarins, some baby tomatoes, a dash of olive oil and lime juice and some fresh black pepper.
Colorful Spring Salad with Cranberries and Home-Made Bleu Cheese Dressing 2008
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"vinegary," as it's known -- had an open house in the Sandhills.
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But Heinz scored just two out of five for taste, with many tasters describing its flavour as "artificial" and '"synthetic", and claiming it had a "bitter" and "vinegary" taste.
Heinz left playing tomato catch-up after ketchup tasting trouncing 2011
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Heinz tomato ketchup: synthetic, bitter and vinegary, according to some tasters.
Heinz left playing tomato catch-up after ketchup tasting trouncing 2011
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Until late in the proceedings, when the story makes an unconvincing segue from hard-edged to soft, "Cripple" is as gleefully vinegary as anything McDonagh has conjured.
McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life Peter Marks 2011
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The fine literary novelist Philip Hensher—whose "King of the Badgers" had been widely expected to feature on the list—had the most vinegary line on the subject: "Perhaps one shouldn't be surprised," he wrote in a column in the Sunday Telegraph, "since four of the five judges have themselves written thrillers in an amateur capacity—some quite good, some, such as chair of the judges Dame Stella Rimington's faltering efforts, atrociously bad."
Kapow! Superheroes Still Pack a Punch Sam Leith 2011
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Everything worked out well, when my rice cooker beeped my tofus were ready to come out as well as my bok, and my salad had chilled long enough that the cukes were vinegary and crisp and lemony.
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Pulled pork, vinegary sauce, napa cabbage, and caramelized sweet onions.
Dear Clusterflock: What’s the best sandwich you ever had? | clusterflock 2009
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Downtown at the convention center, hundreds queue up for vinegary "eastern-style" barbecue, hush puppies, cole slaw and foam cups of sweet iced tea.
Ron Paul Proposes Interesting Salary For Himself As President 2011
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