a. Also 7 vinegrish. [f. VINEGAR sb.] Somewhat resembling vinegar (in taste); sourish. Also fig.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Azijnachtigh, Vinegrish.

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1669.  W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 163. Animal juyces … degenerate into acid, sowre, vinegarish liquors.

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1693.  Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 141. ’Tis another fault to be sometimes so Vinous, as to contract from thence a Vinegarish sharp taste.

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1845.  Temple, in E. H. Coleridge, Life Ld. Coleridge (1904), I. vii. 167. I expected that Scott … would have given him rather a vinegarish reply; but [etc.].

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1867.  C. J. Smith, Syn. & Antonyms, Acid, Syn. … Acetose. Vinegarish.

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