vanilla

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Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”).

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vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

  1. (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
    You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New CokeTM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.
  5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

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vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

  1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
      A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye.
  2. (colloquial, chiefly computing) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
    vanilla JavaScript
    • 2001, "Michael Foot", BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.announce)
      BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.
  3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
    • 2006, Felix Lance Falkon, Gay Art: A Historic Collection, ISBN 1551522055, page 136:
      An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.
    • 2010, Chloe Stowe, Hard Water, ISBN 1607774054, page 37:
      While Dominick was more of a vanilla kind of a guy himself, he wasn't a total dunce when it came to the kinkier sides of things.
    • 2014, Christina Thacher, The Negotiation: A BDSM Romance, ISBN 193957305X:
      Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman.
  4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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Etymology[edit]

From English vanilla, from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of vaina (“pod”), from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

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vanilla f (genitive singular vanillu, nominative plural vanillur)

  1. (usually singular only, uncountable) vanilla

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declension of vanilla
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vanilla vanillan vanillur vanillurnar
accusative vanillu vanilluna vanillur vanillurnar
dative vanillu vanillunni vanillum vanillunum
genitive vanillu vanillunnar vanilla vanillanna

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