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sour

sour - noun

a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

the property of being acidic

sour - verb

go sour or spoil
make sour or more sour

sour - adjective

smelling of fermentation or staleness
having a sharp biting taste
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
in an unpalatable state
inaccurate in pitch
showing a brooding ill humor

sour - thesaurus

acetify acidify acidity acidulate dark dour false ferment glowering glum moody morose off rancid saturnine sourness sullen tartness turn turned work

View spelling list ou words - set 1 and learn about the word sour in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 15. Spelling choices for /ou/ sound: ou, ow.

Other Spellzone word lists: Food, flavours

Scrabble score for sour

Scrabble score = 4

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