verjuice

verjuice englanniksi

1. A very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, crab-apples{{, or other sour fruit.

2. (RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)

3. (quote-book)|author=Charles Reade|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3067/pg3067-images.html|passage=Alfred pulled a face as of one that drinketh verjuice unawares; but let it pass: hypercriticism was not his cue just then.

4. (RQ:Yonge Chantry House)

5. To render something sour; to embitter.

6. (quote-book)|year=1892|page=3|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/stilllifeofmiddl00thoriala/stilllifeofmiddl00thoriala/page/3/mode/1up|passage=There are few names to which a jingle or a joke cannot be fitted—witness, Twining, banker and tea-dealer: / ‘Twining would be whining / Were’t not for his tea;’ / and the ex-Lord Mayor, Sir John Key, where the inherent rhyme to ‘donkey’ verjuiced the baronetcy.