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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vinegary
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A vinegary smell pricked the still air for a moment, then faded.
▪ And endless fish and chips, eaten in vinegary haste straight from the newspaper before Nora rushed to work.
▪ Avoid vinegary mint sauce and serve a home-made sauce instead.
▪ Despite the somewhat vinegary aftertaste we found it very easy to drink.
▪ I just became a vinegary old dragon, and all my bitterness turned in on myself and affected my heart.
▪ It was like the brief tipsiness from the glass of vinegary wine.
▪ There is no label on the bottle, it tastes a wee bit vinegary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vinegary

Vinegary \Vin"e*gar*y\, a. Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

Wiktionary
vinegary

a. 1 sour, like vinegar 2 (context figuratively English) acerbic, bitter 3 of a liquid, having turned partially or fully to vinegar.

WordNet
vinegary

adj. tasting like vinegar [syn: acetose, acetous]

Usage examples of "vinegary".

His health remained strong throughout this period, interrupting his three-month burst of creativity only once, in early November, when Suor Maria Celeste and Suor Luisa treated his brief indisposition by sending him five ounces of their vinegary oxymel concoction and some syrup of citron rind to ameliorate its bitter taste.

Daffyd had several slabs of the dried beef and a warm sour ale that Anna forwent in favor of a vinegary red wine.

He carried enough dry wood in one of his many bundles to heat the thin vinegary wine that legionnaires drank, but we ate our pease porridge cold.

Brill rilled his goblet with the vinegary wine, the amber version, as Serna quietly slipped the serving platters on the table.