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Examples
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When she went to the grocery and asked for "winegar," the young clerk laughed outright.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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I remembered that Todd English's french fig confit had balsamic winegar and wine.
Archive 2005-04-01 Mika 2005
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She has shewn me all her secrets, and learned me to wash gaze, and refrash rusty silks and bumbeseens, by boiling them with winegar, chamberlye, and stale beer.
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Makes hisself the wiaduck for the 'Arwarden Gang's witrol and winegar, _e_' do.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
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The old nurse who took care of me in my babyhood spoke of "weal" and "winegar," where my father and mother spoke of veal and vinegar, just as if she had been a London Cockney.
The Only True Mother Goose Melodies Anonymous
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Take my adwice, and don't on no account apply your winegar afore you've opened your hoyster.
Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864
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Folks say winegar ain't nothin 'to him, but he seems sweet on Miss Edie, sure' nuff.
What Can She Do? Edward Payson Roe 1863
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"It would turn a man's blood to white wine winegar to hear him tell of it, sir," said the landlord.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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` It would turn a man's blood to white wine winegar to hear him tell of it, sir, 'said the landlord.
Great Expectations 1860
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Waughn, a wery wicious man, inwited us aboard his wessel, and gave us some weal and wenison, with some winegar, which made me wery sick; so I did womit like wengeance; _ (and added, reaching out the book) _You may have my Wirgil, and welcome_.
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