sweet oil

noun

An oil with a pleasant taste, especially olive oil or rape oil.

First used 16th c.
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Meanings

nounsweet oil (countable and uncountable, plural sweet oils)

plural sweet oils

  1. countabledateduncountableAn oil with a pleasant taste, especially olive oil or rape oil.First known use 16th c.

    Equal parts of the juice of house-leek, brandy and sweet-oil in a phial, to be hung up and exposed to the sun for a month or more.

    1847, editorial staff, “A Cure for Deafness”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 74
    1 more example

    Mr. Nollekens shook him by the elbow, and applied to him for a little sweet-oil, a large basin, some water, and pen, ink, and paper.

    1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 293

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
olive oil

Translations

Italian eleomele
  • eleomeleolive oil when used as a salad dressing
Polish oliwa do sałatek
  • oliwa do sałatekolive oil when used as a salad dressing
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