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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sourball

1900 as "constantly grumbling person;" 1914 as a type of candy; from sour (adj.) + ball (n.1).

Wiktionary
sourball

n. (context US English) A hard candy.

WordNet
sourball

n. round piece of tart hard candy

Usage examples of "sourball".

He came up with another sourball, pulled the wrapper off, popped it in.

I half-suspected that if I could show him to be a pedophile, Jenovitz would simply pop in another sourball and sigh.

He always rolled a sound around in his mouth like a sourball until he had its taste and feel.

Abu stopped and produced from the voluminous pockets of his overcoat five stone coins and a single sourball, which he proffered with apologetic solemnity.

Grand said, taking a sourball out of the jar he always kept on his desk.

He was sucking on candy sourballs, and when he crunched them up he opened a box of Cracker Jacks.

Everyone thinks I'm an expert at coaxing noor, just because hoonish mariners hire some of them to help on our sailing ships, scooting deftly along the spars and rigging, working for umbles and sourballs.