juice

English Online Dictionary. What means juice‎? What does juice mean?

English

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/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

juice (usually uncountable, plural juices)

1. (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.

   Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice

2. (countable) A beverage made of juice.
   • 2006, Katie Kitamura, Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 189.

   Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice

3. (uncountable) Any liquid resembling juice.

   Hyponym: moo juice

   1. (Scotland) A soft drink.
   2. (uncountable, slang) Liquor.
   3. (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)

   4. (slang) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.

      Hyponym: dumpster juice (liquid which oozes out of garbage dumpsters)

4. (uncountable, slang) Vitality, strength.
5. (uncountable, slang) Political power.
6. (uncountable, slang) Petrol; gasoline.
   • 1973, Stephen Barlay, Double Cross: Encounters with Industrial Spies, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 227.

   Synonym: dino juice

7. (uncountable, slang) Electricity.
8. (uncountable, slang, bodybuilding) Steroids.
9. (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.
10. (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
11. (uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
12. (uncountable, slang, music) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.

Synonyms

• (charge by bookmaker): cut, take, vig, vigorish

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

juice (third-person singular simple present juices, present participle juicing, simple past and past participle juiced)

1. (transitive) To extract the juice from something.
2. (transitive) To energize or stimulate something.
3. (intransitive, slang, bodybuilding) To take a performance-enhancing drug.

   Synonym: juice up

Derived terms

• dejuice
• juice up
• ruckus juice

Translations

Etymology 2

Dialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.

Adjective

juice (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English juice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥juːs]

Noun

juice c (singular definite juicen, not used in plural form)

1. juice
2. a container containing juice

Inflection

Synonyms

• saft

Derived terms

• appelsinjuice
• grapefrugtjuice
• juicer
• tomatjuice
• æblejuice

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jus

Etymology

From Latin jus, via English juice.

Pronunciation

Noun

juice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicer, definite plural juicene)

1. juice

Synonyms

• saft

References

• “juice” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jus

Etymology

From Latin jus, via English juice.

Noun

juice m (definite singular juicen, indefinite plural juicar, definite plural juicane)

1. juice

Synonyms

• saft

References

• “juice” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• jos

Etymology

Borrowed from English juice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

juice c

1. (fruit) juice (as intended to be drunk as a beverage)

Usage notes

• In a more generic sense, like when used as an ingredient, juice is usually instead 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

Derived terms

• apelsinjuice
• druvjuice
• fruktjuice
• äppeljuice

See also

• äppelmust
• dricka
• köttsaft
• lingondricka
• must
• saft

References

• juice in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• juice in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)