juice
English
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Etymology 1
From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs, from *yewH- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). Doublet of jus and ukha. In this sense, mostly displaced native Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK, Canada) IPA(key): /d͡ʒ(j)uːs/, /d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/
- (US) IPA(key): /d͡ʒ(j)us/
- (India) IPA(key): /d͡ʒuːs/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
juice (usually uncountable, plural juices)
- (uncountable) A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
- 1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378.
- You are aware, I presume, that immense quantities of sugar are annually made from the juice of the A`cer sacchárinum,[sic] in the west of Pennsylvania and New York, with which our forests abound (Professor Kid, in his Bridgwater Treatise, says they are “cultivated”!); and, as the peculiarities attending the flow of this juice have puzzled me to explain them, I have resolved to state them to you.
- 1940 November, Dwight M. DeLong, “Studies of Methods and Materials for the Control of the Leafhopper Empoasca fabae as a Bean Pest”, in Technical Bulletin, number 740, United States Department of Agriculture, page 26:
- The plant juices of both bean and potato gave strong positive tests, showing that the juices of these plants can readily dissolve copper in some form from bordeaux-mixture residue and absorb it through a permeable membrane.
- Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.
- Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice
- 1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378.
- (countable) A beverage made of juice.
- 1938, C.B. Hutchison, S.B. Freeborn, Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, page 44:
- The bottled juice must be heated to a temperature and for a time sufficient to attain a sterilizing temperature at the coolest point, usually the center of the bottle.
- 2006, Katie Kitamura, Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 189.
- My mom placed a glass of juice before her, then looked questioningly towards the son.
- I’d like two orange juices please.
- Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice
- (uncountable) Any liquid resembling juice.
- Hyponym: moo juice
- (Scotland) A soft drink.
- (uncountable, slang) Liquor.
- (informal) The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
- Hyponyms: pickle juice (the brine in a jar of pickles), sauerkraut juice (the brine in a jar of sauerkraut)
- (slang) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
- Hyponym: dumpster juice (liquid which oozes out of garbage dumpsters)
- (uncountable, slang) Vitality, strength.
- 1884 July, Alfales Young, “Letter from Salt Lake City”, in Wallace's Monthly, volume X, number 6, page 450:
- This chance manner of her laying herself fallow gives her an opportunity of recovering her juices, or strength, to enable her to breed a stronger foal.
- 2019, Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, William Inboden, editors, The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq, page 161:
- And privately the president says, “Do the Iraqis have the juice to carry this off?”
- (uncountable, slang) Political power.
- 1998, The Hotline, page 16:
- CNBC's Matthews: "The power in the Republican party[sic] in terms of who's got the juice, who knows how to win elections, has clearly moved tonight ... from Capitol Hill, the Newt Gingrich crowd, to the governors' crowd" ("Hardball," CNBC. 11/3).
- (uncountable, slang) Petrol; gasoline.
- 1973, Stephen Barlay, Double Cross: Encounters with Industrial Spies, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 227.
- Drove across the road to the petrol station and waited for five minutes—without buying juice.
- 2009, William J. Holstein, Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon, Walker Books, page 137:
- Drivers running short on power could simply stop at a gas station and fill up, obviating the fear of running out of juice on a long and lonely road, always a risk with the EV-1.
- Synonym: dino juice
- 1973, Stephen Barlay, Double Cross: Encounters with Industrial Spies, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 227.
- (uncountable, slang) Electricity.
- 1915, Berton Braley, "The Power Plant"[1]:
- This is the shrine of the God That Works,
Driving away the mists and murks,
Turning the lightnings into use.
This is the shrine of the mighty "Juice,"
Flowing ever the long wires through,
And making the dream, the Dream come true!
- 1917 July, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 180, column 2:
- `Perhaps, later on, but I've got lots to show you - and besides, it's a waste of "juice".'
- (uncountable, slang, bodybuilding) Steroids.
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) Semen.
- 1981, Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature, page 62, quoting Yvette Clemons, The Skin Flick Rapist.
- The demand that a woman drink semen is repeated throughout pornography. Volume after volume presents such scenes as this which we find in The Skin Flick Rapist: "Maria gagged on his juice. It made him so angry that he reached out with his right hand and pulled at her hair."
- 2005, Michael Thomas Ford, Tangled Sheets, Kensington Books, page 242:
- I pulled my cock out of North and he fell forward, his face in the cum-soaked laundry. He rolled over on his back and looked up at me. I shook the last drops of juice from my prick.
- 1981, Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature, page 62, quoting Yvette Clemons, The Skin Flick Rapist.
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
- 1999, Tristan Taormino, editor, Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, Cleis Press, page 62:
- Lily shuddered and looked at me as I came up from between her legs with her juices dripping all over me.
- 2006, Donna Lea Simpson, Awaiting the Night, page 247:
- Body singing with pleasure, she found he was right, and her juices flowed as he pulled her back down on his stiffness.
- (uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74:
- He was a sporting man, a gambler. He had to go into hiding at last, because the juice men were after him. I believe they had even broken his ankles.
- (uncountable, slang, music) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 160:
- The Nashville Teens convened in 1962 when Ramon "Ray" Phillips and Arthur Sharp, members of two local rival groups, decided to join their musical juices.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- apple juice
- ass juice
- balljuice
- balloon juice
- Beetlejuice
- bin juice
- boob juice
- boy juice
- bug juice
- buko juice
- butt juice
- cane juice
- cock juice
- corn juice
- cow juice
- cranberry juice
- cube juice
- cunt juice
- dancing juice
- dick juice
- diluting juice
- dino-juice
- dinosaur juice
- dumpster juice
- e-juice
- elbow juice
- elephant juice
- fog juice
- foo-foo juice
- frozen cow juice
- fruit juice
- fruit-juice
- fuckjuice
- fuck juice
- gastric juice
- giggle juice
- girl juice
- go-go juice
- go juice
- goofy juice
- grape juice
- high juice
- jail juice
- Jesus juice
- joy juice
- juice badge
- juice box
- juice carton
- juice collector
- juice head
- juice-head
- juice is worth the squeeze
- juice jacking
- juice joint
- juice loan
- juice monkey
- jungle juice
- juniper juice
- kraut juice
- laughing juice
- lemon juice
- lime juice
- link juice
- love juice
- mango juice
- man juice
- mommy juice
- moo juice
- olive juice
- orange juice
- pancreatic juice
- pickle juice
- pineapple juice
- pussy juice
- rhus juice
- sauerkraut juice
- sky juice
- Spanish juice
- spill juice
- spoiled grape juice
- stagger juice
- stew in one's own juice
- tiger juice
- tit juice
- titty juice
- tobacco dust juice
- tobacco juice
- tomato juice
- torpedo juice
- tramp juice
- vegetable juice
- wreck the hoose juice
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: jus
- → Czech: džus
- → Danish: juice
- → Faroese: djús
- → Hungarian: dzsúsz
- → Icelandic: djús
- → Indonesian: jus
- → Japanese: ジュース (jūsu)
- → Korean: 주스 (juseu), 쥬스 (juseu)
- → Norwegian:
- → Papiamentu: djus
- → Serbo-Croatian: džus
- → Slovak: džús
- → Swahili: juisi, jusi
- → Swedish: juice, jos
- → Zulu: újúsi
Translations
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Verb
juice (third-person singular simple present juices, present participle juicing, simple past and past participle juiced)
- (transitive) To extract the juice from something.
- (transitive) To energize or stimulate something.
- (intransitive, slang, bodybuilding) To take a performance-enhancing drug.
- Synonym: juice up
- 2012, Phil Denapoli, Preying on the Innocent, page 233:
- I followed the home run race between Sosa and McGuire, and any fool could see they were juicing.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Dialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.
Adjective
juice (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
juice c (singular definite juicen, not used in plural form)
- juice
- a container containing juice
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | juice | juicen |
genitive | juices | juicens |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin jus, via English juice.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
juice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicer, definite plural juicene)
Synonyms
References
- “juice” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin jus, via English juice.
Noun
juice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicar, definite plural juicane)
Synonyms
References
- “juice” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
juice c
- (fruit) juice (as intended to be drunk as a beverage)
- Han hällde upp ett glas apelsinjuice
- He poured a glass of orange juice
- Juice är ojäst saft från (vanligtvis) frukter, vanligtvis osötad
- Juice is unfermented juice from (usually) fruits, usually unsweetened
Usage notes
- In a more generic sense, like when used as an ingredient, juice is usually instead called saft.
- Juice always refers to a beverage containing 100% fruit. Fruit beverages with added sugar and/or water are called saft.
- A well-known, largely unsuccessful attempt was made to popularize "jos" as a Swedified spelling in the 1970s. "Jos" is now often used in tongue-in-cheek reference.
Declension
Declension of juice | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | juice | juicen | juicer | juicerna |
Genitive | juices | juicens | juicers | juicernas |
Derived terms
See also
References
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English doublets
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/uːs
- Rhymes:English/uːs/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
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- Scottish English
- English slang
- en:Alcoholic beverages
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- en:Politics
- en:Electricity
- en:Bodybuilding
- English vulgarities
- en:Sex
- en:Music
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Beverages
- en:Liquids
- Danish terms borrowed from English
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- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
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- Danish terms spelled with C
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Beverages
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with C
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Beverages
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Swedish/uːs
- Rhymes:Swedish/uːs/1 syllable
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples