sourish
Example Sentences
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Duke Vincentio finally returns to square these various accounts, "measure for measure," and give this sourish play an ambiguously happy ending.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole is covered with leaves and heavy stones laid upon them; here it undergoes a second Fermentation and becomes sourish, in which condition they say it will keep good 10 or 12 months.
From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook
Apples are sometimes found that are sweetish on one side and sourish on the other.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
He puckered his lips and curled his nose, and said it was rather sourish; but in hot weather it was not so bad as cold water, and was safer for the stomach.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
When it has stood by for some time, it acquires an agreeable sourish taste, quite different from the flavour of the fresh plant.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
