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sweet oil

sweet oil noun: an oil with a pleasant taste, especially olive oil or rape oil.

Noun

sweet oil (countable and uncountable, plural sweet oils)

  1. (dated) An oil with a pleasant taste, especially olive oil or rape oil.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of sweet oil

pluralsweet oils

Questions about sweet oil

What does sweet oil mean?
Sweet oil means an oil with a pleasant taste, especially olive oil or rape oil.
What part of speech is sweet oil?
Sweet oil is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet oil?
The plural of sweet oil is sweet oils.

Words near sweet oil in the dictionary

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  8. sweet on
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