Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sweet or dry fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and used chiefly in mixed drinks.
Wiktionary
- n. A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.
- n. An aperitif wine that matches the general description of vermouth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks
Etymologies
- From French vermout, from German Wermut ("wormwood"). (Wiktionary)
- French vermout, from German Wermut, from Middle High German wermuot, wormwood, from Old High German wermuota. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“By fknvty, December 17, 2009 @ 9: 09 pm sweet vermouth is primarily for biker widgies and surf moles. perhaps the odd bottle of blackberry nip if you can’t find the g spot. bobby my dear boy, you really are pushin’ the proverbial olive here, like vodka on anyones shelf is just so … .. absolut neutral ethyl alcohol. like, no fuckin’ taste of bobspeak.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge.
“No one has traced the evolution from beer out of cans to pink ladies and even excuse-the-expression vermouth and soda.”
Fictionaut: Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
“So dry, in fact, that he tells the bartender to merely whisper the word "vermouth" over the glass.”
“**I assume "vermouth" was chosen in order to rhyme with "truth," two lines earlier, but I couldn't resist writing in the margin, "it would take a whole lot of vermouth to get drunk on!”
“I was never a big fan of gin, but somehow I thought the combination of gin and a mysterious ingredient called "vermouth" would take the edge off the taste.”
“vermouth" of the Italian before the evening meal.”
“Christian Schoppe/photoselection Daniel Brühl When Daniel Brühl isn't sipping vermouth with friends at a bar in Barcelona's El Raval neighborhood after an evening run, the 32-year-old actor spends the weekend cooking for friends.”
The Wall Street Journal: Daniel Brühl Cooks Up an Ideal Weekend
“We're witnessing a scene of sexual exploitation in which Jean (Siân Brooke) is treated as a mere convenience by the swaggering Roy (Daniel Coonan), who dresses, smokes, drinks a beer and leaves the taciturn Jean to her lonely swig of neat vermouth (the drink she alternates with gin).”
The Wall Street Journal: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Turbulent Family Life
“Then I'll drive home and there's a tradition here of drinking vermouth, so I'll hang out with friends in a bar—often Boadas in El Raval—and drink vermouth.”
The Wall Street Journal: Daniel Brühl Cooks Up an Ideal Weekend
“Next, up was the Frangelico Supreme—made with 1¼ ounce Frangelico, and identical amounts of Flor de Cana 7 year Grand Reserve Rum, and sweet vermouth, poured over rocks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vermouth’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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-mouth
I'm a sucker for a suffix, especially one after me own moniker
flannelmouth, cottonmouth, madmouth, foot-in-mouth, bigmouth, Dartmouth, wooly mammouth, badmouth, buttermouth, cross-mouth, fatmouth, flap-mouth and 38 more...
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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heart of darkness
yawl, sea-reach, offing, barge, sprit, estuary, yarn, aft, mizzenmast, placid, gauzy, diaphanous and 141 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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I Drink Your...
I drink it up!
milkshake, smoothie, egg cream, coolatta, horchata, lassi, slurpee, Arnold Palmer, Shirley Temple, coffee, tea, cappuccino and 42 more...
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suunflowerss's Words
bakery, crisp, pollywog, crescent, chrysanthemum, aluminum, turquoise, bazooka, crotch rocket, paisley, vermouth, dildo and 107 more...
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Bottle of Red, Bottle of White
Wine types.
pinot, traminette, Chablis, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, vermouth, vin jaune, hock, malmsey, Liebfraumilch, Moselle and 82 more...
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'Wasted' Words
Alcohol-related words that tickle the ear & the fancy
absinthe, ambrosial, Bordeaux, burgundy, bibulous, wineskin, champagne, claret, corkscrew, drip dickey, frizzante, flagon and 74 more...
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astrange's Words
moé, æsthetic, catbus, mecha, stardust, fen, lagom, vermouth, quaff, gloam, muck, cthulhu and 5 more...
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pretty sounds
vermouth, floozy, bungalow, iota, petrify, perpetural, ricochet, chartreuse, shirk, shiver, shatter, tussle and 44 more...
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