sour
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- adjective
- /saʊər/
- After school, I ate some sour milk with old pieces of dried bread.
- turn sour
- sour milk
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- We don't like going into the refrigerator and drinking sour milk.
- No no, it literally smells like sour milk and Dicks.
- It ain't like damn what what what's sour milk on?
Examples
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These are going to be too sour to eat.
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When it starts to smell kind of sour and chemically like you know it's bad, it's time to say bye bye.
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The wine was sour, so I just voiced that out.
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Next week, it's cold beet borscht with sour cream.
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Milk is sour.
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Now the air is stale and sour; fresh linen laid upon the beds turns soiled within minutes.
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The milk has turned sour, so you should not drink it.
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I don't like the sour taste of spoiled fruit.
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After leaving it out too long, the yogurt became sour.
Synonyms
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Very bad and unpleasant to experience
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Spoiled and not safe to eat
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4.5
A bad, sharp smell or taste from spoiled oil
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2.7
No longer fresh and unpleasant to eat
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5.9
Having a sharp, sour taste or smell
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6.0
Food or drink that has gone bad
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Idioms
Compounds
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A thick white food made from milk with a slightly sour taste used as a topping or in cooking
- Specialized
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7.4
A way of making whiskey using part of a previous batch to start the next one
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3.5
Bread made with a mixture of flour and water that has natural yeast, giving a tangy taste
- Specialized
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7.2
People add some mash from an earlier batch when making whiskey to keep the same flavor
- US
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8.4
A tree that loses its leaves in autumn and has bright red leaves and small blue berries
- South African
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9.2
A low plant from South Africa with thick leaves that makes small edible fruit
A tree that makes bitter oranges used as root for other orange trees and for marmalade
- Specialized
A group of related trees that make flowers and fruit, like the sour gum tree
How Spoiled
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sour (turned bad) came to mean 'gone bad' because when milk or fruit goes bad it often becomes sharp and unpleasant; the word traces back to Old English sūr meaning 'acid' or 'sharp', which explains the spoiled sense.