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Dictionary definition for: Sour
1. (n) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
2. (v) go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured" "The wine worked" "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
3. (s) smelling of fermentation or staleness
4. (n) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
6. (a) having a sharp biting taste
7. (n) the property of being acidic
8. (s) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
9. (s) in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
10. (s) inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note" "her singing was off key"
11. (s) showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl" "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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper
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