| 释义 |
sour /sowr/ adjective- Having an acid taste or smell
- Turned, rancid or fermented
- Rank
- (of animals) heavy, strong
- Cold and wet
- Embittered, crabbed, or peevish
- Disagreeable
- Inharmonious (lit and figurative)
- Bad, unsuccessful
- Containing sulphur compounds
- (of soil) lacking in lime and thus unfruitful for crops
transitive verb- To make sour
- To treat with dilute acid
intransitive verb To become sour noun- An acid drink, such as a gin or whisky cocktail that contains lemon or lime juice
- An acid solution used in bleaching, curing skins, etc
ORIGIN: OE sūr; Ger sauer, ON sūrr sourˈing noun - The process of turning or becoming sour
- Vinegar
- The crab-apple
- Treatment with dilute acid in bleaching
sourˈish adjective sourˈishly adverb sourˈly adverb sourˈness noun sourˈ-cold adjective (Shakespeare). sour cream noun Cream soured by a ferment sourˈ-crout see sauerkraut sourˈdough noun - Leaven
- A piece of dough reserved to leaven a new batch
- Bread made in this way
- In Canada and Alaska, an old-timer
sourˈ-eyed adjective Morose-looking sour gas noun (mining) Natural gas containing impurities, mainly hydrogen sulphide sourˈ-gourd noun - The cream of tartar tree
- A tropical grass related to millet
- Sorrel
sour grapes See under grape1 sour mash noun (US) - New mash mixed with old to increase acidity and promote fermentation
- Whiskey made in this way
sourˈpuss noun (informal) A sour-tempered person sourˈwood noun A deciduous tree of eastern N America (Oxydendrum arboreum) with acid-tasting leaves, the sorrel tree |