sour
adjective
- 1
smelling of fermentation or staleness
- 2
showing a brooding ill humor
a dark scowl
the proverbially dour New England Puritan
- 3
inaccurate in pitch
a false (or sour) note
her singing was off key
- 4
having a sharp biting taste
- 5
in an unpalatable state
sour milk
- 6
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
noun
- 1
the property of being acidic
- 2
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- 3
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
verb
- 1
go sour or spoil
The milk has soured
The wine worked
- 2
make sour or more sour
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