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Sour and Salty Definitions

Sour

Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.

Salty

Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.

Sour

Made acid or rancid by fermentation.

Salty

Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.

Sour

Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
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Salty

Witty; pungent; earthy
Salty humor.

Sour

Bad-tempered and morose; peevish
A sour temper.

Salty

Tasting of salt.

Sour

Displeased with something one formerly admired or liked; disenchanted
Sour on ballet.

Salty

Containing salt.
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Sour

Not measuring up to the expected or usual ability or quality; bad
A sour performance of the play.

Salty

; provocative; earthy.

Sour

Not having the correct or properly produced pitch
A sour note.

Salty

(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

Sour

Of or relating to excessively acid soil that is damaging to crops.

Salty

(slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.

Sour

Containing excessive levels of sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide, or both. Used of oil and natural gas.

Salty

(linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin self instead of the Latin that.

Sour

Containing excessive levels of peroxides. Used of gasoline.

Salty

Somewhat salt; saltish.

Sour

The sensation of sour taste, one of the four primary tastes.

Salty

Engagingly stimulating or provocative;
A piquant wit
Salty language

Sour

Something sour.

Salty

Containing salt;
A saline solution
Salty tears

Sour

A mixed drink made especially with whiskey, lemon or lime juice, sugar, and sometimes soda water.

Salty

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

Sour

To make or become sour.

Sour

To make or become disagreeable, disillusioned, or disenchanted.

Sour

Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
Lemons have a sour taste.

Sour

Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.

Sour

Tasting or smelling rancid.
His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.

Sour

Peevish or bad-tempered.
He gave me a sour look.

Sour

Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
Sour land
A sour marsh

Sour

Containing excess sulfur.
Sour gas smells like rotten eggs

Sour

Unfortunate or unfavorable.

Sour

(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.

Sour

The sensation of a sour taste.

Sour

A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.

Sour

(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.

Sour

A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

Sour

The acidic solution used in souring fabric.

Sour

(transitive) To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.

Sour

(intransitive) To become sour.

Sour

(transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.

Sour

(intransitive) To become disenchanted.
We broke up after our relationship soured.

Sour

(transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

Sour

To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

Sour

(transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

Sour

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.

Sour

Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

Sour

Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.

Sour

Afflictive; painful.

Sour

Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

Sour

A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

Sour

To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
So the sun's heat, with different powers,Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.

Sour

To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

Sour

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
To sour your happiness I must report,The queen is dead.

Sour

To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart.

Sour

To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

Sour

To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.

Sour

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

Sour

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

Sour

The property of being acidic

Sour

Go sour or spoil;
The milk has soured
The wine worked
The cream has turned--we have to throw it out

Sour

Make sour or more sour

Sour

Smelling of fermentation or staleness

Sour

Having a sharp biting taste

Sour

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

Sour

In an unpalatable state;
Sour milk

Sour

Inaccurate in pitch;
A false (or sour) note
Her singing was off key

Sour

Showing a brooding ill humor;
A dark scowl
The proverbially dour New England Puritan
A glum, hopeless shrug
He sat in moody silence
A morose and unsociable manner
A saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
A sour temper
A sullen crowd

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