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The taste your face makes a decision about before your brain does.
means Tasting, smelling, or behaving like vinegar — sharply sour, acidic, or, by extension, ill-tempered and bitter in manner.
from Straight from "vinegar," which English borrowed in the medieval period from Old French "vinaigre" — literally "sour wine," from "vin" (wine) plus "aigre" (sour). The "aigre" half traces back to Latin "acer," meaning sharp or keen, a cousin of words like "acid" and "acrid." So vinegar is wine gone sharp, and "vinegary" simply hands that sourness to anything — or anyone — that has soured.
- root word
- From French vin aigre, meaning sour wine
- chemistry
- Acetic acid is the source of the bite
- accidental origin
- Vinegar is wine that lost a fight with bacteria
- reflex
- The pucker is involuntary, a hardwired acid alarm
- double life
- Same compound cleans windows and dresses salads
worcestershire sauce — fermented condiment with vinegar base, used since 1837 in worcester, england
sour beer — lambic beers of belgium deliberately soured with vinegar or wild fermentation
fish and chips vinegar — malt vinegar sprinkled on fish and chips across uk fish shops