sour : Idioms & Phrases

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sour bread

  • noun made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active
    sourdough bread.
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sour cherry

  • noun rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
    Prunus cerasus; sour cherry.
  • noun Australian tree with sour red fruit
    Eugenia corynantha.
  • noun acid cherries used for pies and preserves
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sour cherry tree

  • noun rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
    Prunus cerasus; sour cherry.
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sour cream

  • noun artificially soured light cream
    sour cream.
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Sour dock

  • noun European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
    Rumex acetosa; garden sorrel.
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  • (Bot.), sorrel.
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sour fig

  • noun low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
    Mesembryanthemum edule; Hottentot fig; Carpobrotus edulis; Hottentot's fig.
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Sour gourd

  • noun Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
    Adansonia gregorii; cream-of-tartar tree.
  • noun African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
    monkey bread.
  • noun acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds
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  • (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.
Webster 1913

Sour grapes

  • noun disparagement of something that is unattainable
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  • . See under Grape.
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sour grass

  • noun any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
    dock; sorrel.
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Sour gum

  • noun columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall
    black gum; pepperidge; Nyssa sylvatica.
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  • (Bot.) See Turelo.
Webster 1913

sour mash

  • noun a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys
  • noun any whiskey distilled from sour mash
    sour mash.
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sour mash whiskey

  • noun any whiskey distilled from sour mash
    sour mash.
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sour milk

  • noun milk that has turned sour
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sour orange

  • noun any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
    bitter orange tree; bigarade; bitter orange; marmalade orange; Seville orange; Citrus aurantium.
  • noun highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
    bitter orange; Seville orange.
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Sour plum

  • (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
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sour salt

  • noun crystals of citric acid used as seasoning
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sour-gum family

  • noun a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees
    family Nyssaceae; tupelo family; Nyssaceae.
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sour-tasting

  • adjective satellite having a sour acidic taste
    acid-tasting.
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soured cream

  • noun artificially soured light cream
    sour cream.
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whiskey sour

  • noun a sour made with whiskey
    whiskey sour.
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whisky sour

  • noun a sour made with whiskey
    whiskey sour.
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