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
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
No; it's shaped like icicles and has kind of a sourish taste, either lemon or strawberry, and it doesn't melt until you get tired of it.
From At the Little Brown House by Ruth Alberta Brown
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 Woods Hutchinson
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
