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At a formal meal, guests are served a small glass of a sour or citrus beverage that serves to stimulate appetite and aid digestion. Vinegar previously was wine (literally「vine」or grapes, and「gar」or soured). When producing alcohol during fermentation, yeast must be deprived of oxygen, and if so, ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide are the byproducts of yeast digesting sugars. However, if oxygen is permitted to contact the yeast, these little fungi will produce what eventually becomes VINEGAR instead (acetic acid has the same molecular structure as alcohol but with oxygen atoms added). So, if you「first used wine」but did not seal the jar well, or simply waited a long time after formerly opening the jar and letting in some air with oxygen and perhaps some additional living yeast cells drifting in the air, any living yeast fungi in the wine would then start producing acetyl-CoA that eventually becomes vinegar instead, and your beverage that「first was used as wine alcohol」will change to VINEGAR,「wine while doing something else.」The lesson here is to finish up each open bottle in a relatively short period of time (preferred), or fortify your wine with distilled alcohol to a level that kills all yeast organisms and ceases production of acetyl-CoA (also preferred). A tank of pressurized carbon dioxide dispensed by rubber hose added into the bottle before re-corking also helps, but that may not have been an option for many cave folks. Related glyph with same meaning is「alcohol from long ago.」
One's「cock meat doing something else」refers to SOURING, CHANGING INTO ACID, spewing venom instead of sweetness, losing the sugar content.
One's「cock meat in first use」is more than likely EXPRESSING JUICES BY SQUEEZING rather than by any other means.
「Cock, wine」with「first use」「doing something else.」…together meaning VINEGAR, but more: eating the chicken「cock meat」is「doing something else」besides providing you with nourishment and calories…the best defense against stomach acid reflux, particularly when drinking wine, is to prevent it in the first place by「first using chicken」as part of your meal [ https://www.ucihealth.org/blog/2023/03/gerd-friendly-recipes 2023-05-17 ]
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: toast to host by guest; variant of 醋
Japanese: vinegar
Unihan extended: toast one's host with wine; to express juice by pressing
EDRDG: vinegar; sour; acid; tart
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system.
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
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Japanese vocabulary: 82 entries
Chinese usage: 4 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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