Definitions for vinegary

vinegary vin·e·gar·y

Spelling: [vin-i-guh-ree]
IPA: /ˈvɪn ɪ gə ri/

Vinegary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 309 anagrams from letters in vinegary (aeginrvy).

Definitions for vinegary

adjective

  1. of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid:
  2. having a disagreeable character or manner; crabbed; ill-tempered:

Origin of vinegary

First recorded in 1720-30; vinegar + -y1

Examples for vinegary

His vinegary daughter Charity out of the way, Pecksniff began to persecute Mary more and more.

Falk clasped a hand, hard as a beetle, and received a vinegary smile.

There was one vinegary old maid to whom he applied who gave me a cold chill.

"I think it's too horrible to think about," said the former, suddenly, and with a vinegary aspect of countenance.

The little girls actually point to me with furtive, vinegary glances, for they are more ingenuously hypocritical than women.

If she hadnt been a Willoughby, one would have said that the lady of vinegary aspect snorted.

"You seem to be alone in your opinion," said the Baron with his vinegary smile.

It's out of favour I am with the vinegary virgins over the way.

Furneaux, though suffering from a splitting headache, had recovered the use of a vinegary tongue.

With these words she took her partners arm and tripped along, with swaying hips and smiling a vinegary smile on all sides.

Word Value for vinegary
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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