Definitions for sours

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sours sour

Spelling: [souuh r, sou-er]

IPA: /saʊər, ˈsaʊ ər/

Sours is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in sours (orssu).

Definitions for sours

noun

1. something that is sour.
2. any of various cocktails consisting typically of whiskey or gin with lemon or lime juice and sugar and sometimes soda water, often garnished with a slice of orange, a maraschino cherry, or both.
3. an acid or an acidic substance used in laundering and bleaching to neutralize alkalis and to decompose residual soap or bleach.

adjective

1. having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
2. rendered acid or affected by fermentation; fermented.
3. producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not bitter, salt, or sweet.
4. characteristic of something fermented:
5. distasteful or disagreeable; unpleasant.
6. below standard; poor.
7. harsh in spirit or temper; austere; morose; peevish.
8. Agriculture. (of soil) having excessive acidity.
9. (of gasoline or the like) contaminated by sulfur compounds.
10. Music. off-pitch; badly produced:

verb (used with object)

1. to make sour; cause sourness in:
2. to cause spoilage in; rot:
3. to make bitter, disillusioned, or disagreeable:

verb (used without object)

1. to become sour, rancid, mildewed, etc.; spoil:
2. to become unpleasant or strained; worsen; deteriorate:
3. to become bitter, disillusioned, or disinterested:
4. Agriculture. (of soil) to develop excessive acidity.

Origin of sours

before 1000; (adj. and noun) Middle English sure, soure, Old English sūr (orig. adj.); cognate with German sauer, Dutch zuur, Old Norse sūrr; (v.) Middle English souren, derivative of the adj

Examples for sours

He became aware that he had spoken for himself, and he had a fit of sourness.

As to the men personally, he chose Carpendike, for all his obstinacy and sourness.

Any expression seems to crack it—with the exception of sourness.

Kwel smell of staleness, of sourness, above all of coldness!

It had given her face no sourness, but it put a shadow into her eyes.

But pain and weakness brought with them no sourness of spirit.

There are, however, some methods that will help to determine the sourness of the soil.

It was to him the one smart of sourness in her charm as a woman.

With all her prejudices and sourness, she was as good as gold when any of us were ill.

The only way is to give them drink; this will mellow the sourness of age.