noun
- A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.
- The property of being acidic.
verb
- Go sour or spoil.
- usage: "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned-we have to throw it out"
- Make sour or more sour.
adjective
- Smelling of fermentation or staleness.
- synonyms: rancid
- Having a sharp biting taste.
- One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.
- In an unpalatable state.
- usage: "sour milk"
- Inaccurate in pitch.
- usage: "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
- Showing a brooding ill humor.
- usage: "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
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