Crossword clues for sourer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sour \Sour\, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r, Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ. surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.]
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Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
--Bacon. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
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Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. ``A sour countenance.''
--Swift.He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
--Shak. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.''
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Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.
Sour grapes. See under Grape.
Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo.
Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree ( Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: sour)
Usage examples of "sourer".
I have known that the story must reach this point, and have stood, feeling my breath come shorter, my stomach grow sourer, as the tale proceeds.
In her sourer moments, she took them for stains caused by rainwater blown into the floors above through shattered windows.
But I tell you this, it makes having things my way taste a bit sourer than I expected.
A lot has happened, the world gone sourer on the human race and everything more complicated.
The open-faced, blue-eyed boy turned steadily darker, and sourer, in the aftermath of his accident.