sourish
- 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
My wife be a good, faithful 'ooman, but vartue wi' her be turned sourish, like that there clarety wine, the only liquor as never did lie easy on my good stomach.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
They have not a balsamic, but mostly a sweetish or sourish flavor.
From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.
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
In the course of three or four weeks it acquires a sourish taste and to persons accustomed to the use of it is a very agreeable food.
From Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Northington, Etta Belle Walker
