vanilla

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vəˈnɪlə/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪlə
  • IPA(key): /vəˈnɛlə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

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.
    Synonym: vanilla bean
  3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
    Synonym: vanilla extract
  4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
    Synonym: imitation vanilla
  6. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
  7. (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
    Synonym: stock
  8. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
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Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

  1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
  2. (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
    vanilla JavaScript
    • 2001, Michael Foot, “BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet):
      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.
    Synonym: normophilic
    • 2006, Felix Lance Falkon, Gay Art: A Historic Collection, →ISBN, 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, 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:
      Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman.
  4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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Icelandic

Etymology

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

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Noun

vanilla f (genitive singular vanillu, nominative plural vanillur)

  1. (usually singular only, uncountable) vanilla

Declension

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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