verjuice
/ˈvɝd͡ʒuːs/noun, verb
verjuice is a noun meaning “A very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, crab-apples, or other sour fruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-J-U-I-C-E, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of verjuice is verjuices.
What does verjuice mean?
noun
- 1
A very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, crab-apples, or other sour fruit.
verb
- 1
To render something sour; to embitter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce verjuice?
- /ˈvɝd͡ʒuːs/
- /ˈvɝd͡ʒəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-verjuice.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of verjuice
- verjuices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- verjus
- verjuicing participle, present
- verjuiced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verjuice?
Verjuice appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Verjuice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense very acidic juice:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does verjuice come from?
From Middle English verjous, vergeous, from Old French vertjus, verjus (French verjus), from vert + jus. First attested in c. 1302.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).