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sour

UK/ˈsaʊ.ə/ US/ˈsɑːə/ fairly common

verb

1.

go sour or spoil

  • “The milk has soured”
  • “The wine worked”
  • “The cream has turned--we have to throw it out”
2.

make sour or more sour

adjective

1.
3.

one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

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4.

in an unpalatable state

  • “sour milk”
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5.

inaccurate in pitch

  • “a false (or sour) note”
  • “her singing was off key”
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6.

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”
  • “a sullen crowd”

noun

2.

the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

3.

the property of being acidic

Origin

From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).

Phrases

  • amaretto sour
  • Boston sour
  • fine and dandy like sour candy
  • for sour apples
  • go sour
  • hot and sour soup
  • laundry sour
  • leave a sour taste in one's mouth
  • New York sour
  • pisco sour
  • sour beer
  • sour cherry

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