sourball
Americannoun
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a round piece of hard candy with a tart or acid fruit flavoring.
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Informal. a chronic grouch.
Etymology
Origin of sourball
Example Sentences
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The much-needed sourball who kept the proceedings from turning sickly sweet, Petra began the series as Rafael’s wife and thus Jane’s foil.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2019
An uneasy, tonally awkward testament to the sourball heart of the candy-colored American Dream, George Clooney’s “Suburbicon” can’t be described as a home run.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2017
Reviewers had praised them, ranked Weidman with such sourball writers as John O'Hara, James M. Cain, Hemingway.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oh, hush!" sobbed the giant, rolling his great sourball eyes.
From The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson
The rest threw themselves on the man with sourball and were for tearing off his outer garments and forcing on his sweater, but Lyman by some occult means of his own got the boy aside.
From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field
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