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Sour

adjective

(compar. sourer; superl. sourest)

1.

Smelling of fermentation or staleness. Synonym: rancid.

2.

Having a sharp biting taste.

3.

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.

4.

In an unpalatable state. Synonyms: off, turned.

5.

Inaccurate in pitch. Synonyms: false, off-key. "Her singing was off key"

6.

Showing a brooding ill humor. Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen. "The proverbially dour New England Puritan" , "A glum, hopeless shrug" , "He sat in moody silence" , "A morose and unsociable manner" , "A saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius" , "A sour temper" , "A sullen crowd"

verb

(past & past part. soured; pres. part. souring)

1.

Go sour or spoil. Synonyms: ferment, turn, work. "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"

2.

Make sour or more sour. Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate.

noun

1.

A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.

2.

The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: sourness, tartness.

3.

The property of being acidic. Synonyms: acidity, sourness.

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"Sour" Quotes from Famous Books

... the diet, pounded fish mixed with Salt water, I derect that in future that the party mix the pounded fish with fresh water- The Squar gave me a piece of bread made of flour which She had reserved for her child and carefully Kept untill this time, which has unfortunately got wet, and a little Sour- this bread I eate with great Satisfaction, it being the only mouthfull I had tasted for Several months past. my hunters killed three Hawks, which we found fat and delicious, they Saw 3 Elk but Could not get a Shot at them. The fowlers killed 3 black ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... and keep house," smiled Pollyanna, with a pensive sigh. "I just love to beat eggs and sugar, and hear the soda gurgle its little tune in the cup of sour milk. I'm happy if I've got a day's baking before me. But there isn't any money in that—except in somebody else's kitchen, of course. And I—I don't exactly love ...

— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter

... his voice deliberately sour. "Look, suppose I asked you to come back to my apartment with ...

— Medal of Honor • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... performed under the lynx eyes of Sister Agnetia, an elderly and sour-visaged sister to whom Magda had taken an instinctive dislike from the outset. The Mother Superior she could tolerate. She was severe and uncompromising. But she was at least honest. There was no doubting the bedrock genuineness of her ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... so. They can have nothing to give us in such miserable huts as these except grod [barley-meal porridge], and sour milk, and ...

— Chasing the Sun • R.M. Ballantyne

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