sour

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  SOUR GRAPES
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj sour smelling of fermentation or staleness
  • adj sour showing a brooding ill humor "a dark scowl","the proverbially dour New England Puritan","a glum, hopeless shrug","he sat in moody silence","a morose and unsociable manner","a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven","a sour temper","a sullen crowd"
  • adj sour inaccurate in pitch "a false (or sour) note","her singing was off key"
  • adj sour having a sharp biting taste
  • adj sour in an unpalatable state "sour milk"
  • adj sour one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
  • v sour go sour or spoil "The milk has soured","The wine worked","The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
  • v sour make sour or more sour
  • n sour the property of being acidic
  • n sour the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
  • n sour a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
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• Interesting fact: Cheese was first made in the Middle East when hunters became herders and realized that milk could solidify (sour milk).
• • n Sour A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • Sour Afflictive; painful. "Sour adversity."
  • Sour Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
  • Sour Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
  • Sour Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance.""He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
    But to those men that sought him sweet as summer."
  • Sour Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. "All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite."
  • v. i Sour To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity. "They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity."
  • Sour To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his cheeks.""Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart."
  • Sour To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. "So the sun's heat, with different powers,
    Ripens the grape, the liquor sours ."
  • Sour To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
  • Sour To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
  • Sour To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. "To sour your happiness I must report,
    The queen is dead."
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• • sour Having an acid taste; sharp to the taste; tart; acid; specifically, acid in consequence of fermentation; fermented, and thus spoiled: as, sour bread; sour milk.
  • sour Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose: as, a man of a sour temper.
  • sour Afflictive; hard to bear; bitter; disagreeable to the feelings; distasteful in any manner.
  • sour Expressing discontent, displeasure, or peevishness: as, a sour word.
  • sour Cold; wet; harsh; unkindly to crops: said of soil.
  • sour Coarse: said of grass.
  • sour Synonyms Acetous, acetose.
  • sour Cross, testy, waspish, snarling, cynical.
  • n sour Something sour or acid; something bitter or disagreeable.
  • n sour Dirt; filth.
  • n sour An acid punch.
  • n sour In bleaching and dyeing:
  • n sour A bath of buttermilk or sour milk, or of soured bran or rye-flour, used by primitive bleachers.
  • n sour A weak solution of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, used for various purposes. Compare souring, 5.
  • sour To become sour; become acid; acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste, as by fermentation: as, cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun.
  • sour To become peevish, crabbed, or harsh in temper.
  • sour To become harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
  • sour To make sour; make acid; cause to have a sharp taste, especially by fermentation.
  • sour To make harsh, crabbed, morose, or bitter in temper; make cross or discontented; embitter; prejudice.
  • sour To make harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
  • sour In bleaching, etc., to treat with a dilute acid.
  • sour To macerate and render fit for plaster or mortar, as lime.
  • sour Sourly; bitterly.
  • n sour In drenching or puering skins, the old liquor which has become sour or turned.
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• • adj Sour sowr having a pungent, acid taste: turned, as milk: rancid: crabbed or peevish in temper: bitter: cold and wet, as soil
  • v.t Sour to make sour or acid: to make cross, peevish, or discontented
  • v.i Sour to become sour or acid: to become peevish or crabbed
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• Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  

  “Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.”
• Frederic Raphael

  

  “The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
• William Shakespeare

  

  “The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”
• Samuel Goldwyn

  

  “You've got to take the bitter with the sour.”
• Pearl Bailey

  

  “There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”

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