Noun: vaseline
| Singular | vaseline |
| Plural | vaselines |
Sample Sentences
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Hearts of putty, hearts of vaseline... [1930, Aldous Huxley, Brief Candles:]
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A Russian vaseline has been lately added to the many kinds of vaseline found in […] [1882, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry:]
Nouns inflected like vaseline
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
5. Proto-Germanic *watōr
6. Proto-West Germanic *watar
7. Old High German waȥȥar
8. Middle High German wazzer
9. German Wasser
10. Proto-Hellenic *élaiwon
11. Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion)
12. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
13. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
14. Proto-Italic *-īnos
15. Latin -īnusder.
16. Old French -inbor.
17. Middle English -in
18. English -ine
19. English vaseline
20. From German Wasser (“water”) + Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -ine. Genericized trademark of the Vaseline brand of petroleum jelly introduced by American chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough in 1872.
Verbs referencing "vaseline"
German Nouns
Vaseline, Finnish Nouns
vaseliini, Italian Nouns
vaselina, Spanish Nouns
vaselina, Dutch Nouns
vaseline, Polish Nouns
wazelina, Irish Nouns
veasailín.