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acidulous, a.|əˈsɪdjʊləs|
[f. L. acidul-us sourish + -ous.]
Slightly sour, sourish, sub-acid. Also fig. Sour-tempered.
1769Buchan Dom. Med. liv. (1826) 265 Acidulous chalybeate waters. 1796Burke Let. Noble Lord Wks. VIII 44 Whatever in his pedigree has been dulcified by an exposure to the influence of heaven in a long flow of generations, from the hard acidulous, metallick tincture of the spring. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 44 The fruit of a species of Sauranja is said to be acidulous, and to resemble Tomatoes in flavour. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 82 Gold is not easily acted upon by acidulous agents. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IX. xx. x. 179 Towards the middle of March, he becomes specially gloomy and acidulous.
Add: Hence (in fig. sense) aˈcidulously adv.
1889B. Whitby Awakening M. Fenwick I. xi. 283 Then she acidulously added, as the carriage drove off, ‘You never remember what an old man you are.’ 1986A. Powell Fisher King v. 29 He described himself rather acidulously as..the sort of child whose nose was always buried in a book. |