verjuice
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English
Etymology
From Middle English verjous, vergeous, from Old French vertjus, verjus (French verjus), from vert + jus. First appears c. 1302.
Pronunciation
Noun
verjuice (usually uncountable, plural verjuices)
- A very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , paragraph 79, page 25, →OCLC:
- In this inſtance, there is (vpon the by) to be noted the Percolation, or Suing of the Veriuyce thorow the VVood; So as it ſeemeth, it muſt be firſt in a kinde of Vapour, before it paſſe.
Derived terms
Translations
very acidic juice
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Verb
verjuice (third-person singular simple present verjuices, present participle verjuicing, simple past and past participle verjuiced)
- (transitive) To render something sour; to embitter.
- 1892, W G Thorpe, “Early Life and School Days”, in The Still Life of the Middle Temple with Some of Its Table Talk Preceded by Fifty Years’ Reminiscences, London: Richard Bentley and Son , page 3:
- 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.