Food / A2

VIN-ig-uh/ˈvɪnɪɡə/

Vinegar is a sour liquid for salad, chips, and cooking: salt and vinegar, a drop of vinegar, wine vinegar. Oil and vinegar dress salad. Ketchup is another table sauce. Sour describes the taste; sweet is the opposite. Uncountable: some vinegar. Do not write vinegar for vintage (old and valuable).

Meaning

A sour liquid used in cooking, salad, and chips.

Examples

• “Add a little vinegar to the salad.”
• “British chip shops often offer vinegar as well as ketchup.”
• “She mixed oil and vinegar for the tomato salad.”

Good to know

salt and vinegar / oil and vinegar (uncountable). Taste: sour. Mix-up: vintage.

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