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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

... summer this endured, but went no further while Amilcare, new to the blunt ways of the English, was unable to stomach their cropped speech any better than their sour beer. Those who heard his florid paraphrase took it gravely, yet held by their "Moll Lovel." They wished that Gregory Drax might have a fair wind home; they wondered what Master Lovel was about; trusted that the black-eyed rascal ...

— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... he offered me was deliciously cool and refreshing; being composed of water strongly dashed with a crude, sour sort of wine. I swallowed it at a gulp, and was about to put a few interrogations to my new friend, when, from the bunk adjoining my own, there arose a feeble cry that I identified as the voice of Dumaresq; and my grimy nurse, gently laying my head back upon the pillow, ...

— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood

... always productive of good. Some repine at the orders of providence—at their lot in the world. Trials sour their minds and render them morose and peevish. We read of some who "blaspheme the God of heaven" because of their sufferings. These are enemies of God, and their sufferings here, are a prelude to greater sufferings ...

— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee

... or a shopkeeper, queen of France by accident, scolds like a burgher-woman who can't manage her own household. She is discontented because she can't set every one by the ears; and then she looks at me with a sour, pale face, and says from her pinched lips: 'My daughter, you are a queen; I am only the second woman in the kingdom' (she is really furious, you know, my darling), 'but if I were in your place I should not wear crimson velvet while all the court is in mourning; neither should I appear in public ...

— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

... woman began to make a fire; then she set the pot of sour buttermilk on to boil, and left the mouse to watch that it did not fall over, while she went to work with the old ...

— Roumanian Fairy Tales • Various

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