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sweet oils

sweet oils is the plural of sweet oil.

Meaning of sweet 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

Questions about sweet oils

What is sweet oils the plural of?
Sweet oils is the plural of sweet oil.

Words near sweet oils in the dictionary

  1. sweet mother of Moses
  2. sweet mother of pearl
  3. sweet nothing
  4. sweet nothings
  5. sweet oil
  6. sweet oils
  7. sweet on
  8. sweet orange
  9. sweet oranges
  10. sweet osmanthus
  11. sweet pea

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