sour
verb
1.
adjective
1.
smelling of fermentation or staleness
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- “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
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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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