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sweet and sour, sweet-sour, adj. phr.
[f. the adjs.]
1. = sour-sweet a. Also, alternatively sweet and sour.
1594Daniel Cleopatra iv. Wks. (1717) 286 To have eat the sweet-sower Bread of Poverty. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 352 It will taste a little Sweet-sour, from the Sugar and from the Currant. c1879G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 179 When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflour of Those gold⁓nails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime. 1909E. B. Titchener Text-Bk. Psychol. i. xxxvii. 141 The mixed sweet-sour stimulus affects only the sour-sensitive bulbs. 1959Vogue Dec. 120 This sweet-and-sour glimpse of the cultured Sahib chez soi continually excites by its freshness. 1967P. D. James Unnatural Causes iii. iv. 211 Dalgliesh could smell his breath, the sweet-sour trace of too much drinking. 1975Chem. in Brit. XI. 18/3 If it [sc. the chemical industry] is subjected to short term sweet-and-sour treatments of restraints, constraints, stimuli, and instant statute, it could very easily be damaged beyond repair.
2. Cookery. Cooked in or flavoured with sugar and vinegar or lemon. Now esp. of Chinese food. Also absol. as n.
1723J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. L l 2, To make a sweet-sour-tart. Boil..Sugar in..Verjuice, or Lemon Juice. 1932L. Golding Magnolia Street v. 103 Mrs. Emmanuel brought in some fish cooked in sweet-and-sour sauce. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 360/2 The soup should have a pleasant ‘sweet-sour’ taste. 1959E. Mannin Blue-Eyed Boy i. xi. 129 ‘A little more sweet-and-sour?’ ‘A lot,’ said Len. He added, ‘It's tasty, I must say.’ 1961[see chow mein]. 1977Times 7 May 9 The usual chow meins and sweet-and-sours can be had. 1978Texas Highways Feb. 16/2 Hong Kong chicken in a sweet-sour sauce. 1982C. Thomas Jade Tiger 5 The German Chancellor's top adviser..struck down by sweet and sour pork. |