sour
adjective
having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
sourish
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a word derived from
sour.
Example Sentences
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Duke Vincentio finally returns to square these various accounts, "measure for measure," and give this sourish play an ambiguously happy ending.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the table stood pint bottles of sourish Moselle, over the table floated a thick mist of cigar smoke, and through the mist came voices, peevish, grating, discussing the latest event in the Army Register.
From Good Blood by Ernst Von Wildenbruch
Boniclapper is milk which has stood till it has acquired a pleasant sourish taste, and a thick slippery substance.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
Also, there was a warm, sourish, milky-looking drink, heady only when taken in enormous doses.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
The great burdock leaves, heated by the sun, discharged a strong sourish odor, and the child felt it to be something that would never change.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
