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sour
has definitions from the fields of food,psychology
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[ verb ] go sour or spoil
Examples "The milk has soured" "The wine worked" "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" Used in print (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)Such ambiguous exercises compound confusion by making it worse compounded , and they are sometimes expanded until the cream of the jest sours . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make sour or more sour
Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)It was spoiled now for seed , and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Yet if he were not there , they would have missed him , as they would have missed the sounds of bees buzzing against the screen_door in early June ; or the smell of thick tomato_paste - the ripe smell that was both sweet and sour - rising_up from aluminum trays wrapped in fly dotted cheesecloth . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] inaccurate in pitch
Examples "a false (or sour) note" "her singing was off key" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] inaccurate in pitch
Examples "a false (or sour) note" "her singing was off key" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] showing a brooding ill humor
Examples "a dark scowl" "the proverbially dour New England Puritan" "a glum, hopeless shrug" "in moody silence" "a morose and unsociable manner" "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven "a sour temper" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
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[ noun ] (food) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
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[ noun ] (food) the property of being acidic
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