Definitions
Etymologies
- vinegar + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It does taste vaguely vinegarish," Patrick conceded.”
The Guardian: The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week
“I could smell him now, vinegarish, hormonally charged.”
“We dote upon vinegarish old maids, self - righteous men, and canting women when they are exposed by narrative art, and especially when poetic justice wrecks them.”
“Believe me, Anastasia, the most vinegarish prude could never object to Lady”
“He maintained an elm-shaded residence on Front Street, presided over by an ancient housekeeper, of certain and gusty disposition, who had guided his first toddling steps and grieved with him for childhood's insupportable wrongs, and whose vinegarish disapprovals were still feared by Mitchell; it was for her praise or blame that his overt walk and conversation were austere and godly, his less laudable activities so mole-like.”
“Like Winthorpe's, his blood was black and icy and vinegarish.”
“Hannan keeps presenting new and interesting views of how this whole nationhood and union fit together, he has a suitably vinegarish tongue for most subjects, except for Peter Hain where his familiarity with the oil stain shows through.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘vinegarish’.
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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