Definitions for Sour

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Sour sour

Spelling: [souuh r, sou-er]

IPA: /saʊər, ˈsaʊ ər/

Sour is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in Sour (orsu).

Definitions for Sour

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 Sour

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 Sour

Then when he looked away, she would make a face as if she just drank a cup of sour milk.

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

But Sandler was left with a sour taste in his mouth when he, along with his best friend Chris Farley, was fired from SNL in 1995.

In Berry it is the women that are sour, but the wines are rich.

The bread was sour and the Italian butter rank and cheesy—often uneatable.

A girl from South Africa, with short hair and a sour face marrying the Prince?

And what about those fatal Apples, those two sour fruits of their Love?

It is not blood, but sour buttermilk that flows in their veins.'

And research shows that sugar has a sour effect on mental health, too.

And on his countenance there was a sour, querulous, resentful expression.