sourish

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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 next thing is to peel and core two sourish apples, and then to cut them up into small cubes like the herrings.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.

So after a bed has been slept in for four or five nights, if it has not been 6thrown well open in the morning, it begins to have a stuffy, foul, sourish smell.

From The Child's Day by Hutchinson, Woods

It smelled horrid and sourish, as shutup bedrooms do.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The great burdock leaves, heated by the sun, discharged a strong sourish odor, and the child felt it to be something that would never change.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various