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sour
noun
1 sour
A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.
2 sour
The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.
synonyms: sourness, tartness.
Polish: cierpkość
3 sour
verb
1 sour
Go sour or spoil:
— The milk has soured.
synonyms: ferment, turn, work.
Roget 835:
aggravate,
render worse,
heighten,
embitter,
sour;
exacerbate;
exasperate,
envenom;
enrage,
provoke,
tease.
add fuel to the fire,
add fuel to the flame;
fan the flame
etc.
(excite)
824;
go from bad to worse
etc.
(deteriorate)
659.
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Dutch: schiften, zuren
2 sour
adjective
1 sour
Smelling of fermentation or staleness.
synonym: rancid.
Roget 397:
sour;
acid,
acidulous,
acidulated;
tart,
crabbed;
acetous,
acetose†;
acerb,
acetic;
sour as vinegar,
sourish,
acescent†,
subacid [Chem];
styptic,
hard,
rough.
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2 sour
Having a sharp biting taste.
3 sour
One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.
Polish: kwaśny
4 sour
In an unpalatable state:
— Sour milk.
synonyms: off, turned.
5 sour
Inaccurate in pitch:
— A false (or sour) note.
synonyms: false, off-key.
6 sour
Showing a brooding ill humor:
— A sour temper.
synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen.
Roget 901a:
sullen,
sulky;
ill-tempered,
ill-humored,
ill-affected,
ill-disposed;
grouty [U.S.];
in an ill temper,
in a bad temper,
in a shocking temper,
in an ill humor,
in a bad humor,
in a shocking humor;
out of temper,
out of humor;
knaggy†,
torvous†,
crusty,
crabbed;
sour,
sour as a crab;
surly
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
moody;
spleenish†,
spleenly†;
splenetic,
cankered.
cross,
crossgrained†;
perverse,
wayward,
humorsome†;
restiff†,
restive;
cantankerous,
intractable,
exceptious†,
sinistrous†,
deaf to reason,
unaccommodating,
rusty,
froward;
cussed [U.S.].
dogged
etc.
(stubborn)
606.
grumpy,
glum,
grim,
grum†,
morose,
frumpish;
in the sulks
etc.
n.;
out of sorts;
scowling,
glowering,
growling;
grouchy.
peevish
etc.
(irascible)
901.
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Roget 895:
discourteous,
uncourteous†;
uncourtly†;
ill-bred,
ill-mannered,
ill-behaved,
ill-conditioned;
unbred;
unmannerly,
unmannered;
impolite,
unpolite†;
unpolished,
uncivilized,
ungenteel;
ungentleman-like,
ungentlemanly;
unladylike;
blackguard;
vulgar
etc.
851;
dedecorous†;
foul-mouthed foul-spoken;
abusive.
uncivil,
ungracious,
unceremonious;
cool;
pert,
forward,
obtrusive,
impudent,
rude,
saucy,
precocious.
repulsive;
uncomplaisant†,
unaccommodating,
unneighborly,
ungallant;
inaffable†;
ungentle,
ungainly;
rough,
rugged,
bluff,
blunt,
gruff;
churlish,
boorish,
bearish;
brutal,
brusque;
stern,
harsh,
austere;
cavalier.
taint,
sour,
crabbed,
sharp,
short,
trenchant,
sarcastic,
biting,
doggish,
caustic,
virulent,
bitter,
acrimonious,
venomous,
contumelious;
snarling
etc.
v.;
surly,
surly as a bear;
perverse;
grim,
sullen
etc.
901.1;
peevish
etc.
(irascible)
901.
untactful,
impolitic,
undiplomatic;
artless
etc.
703;
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Polish: posępny, chmurny, ponury
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