See Also: Sour(medicine)
sour(1)(dictionary)
sour(2)(dictionary)
Hot and Sour Zucchini(recipes)
Sour Spirals(recipes)
Hot and Sour Soup(recipes)
sweet-and-sour(dictionary)
sour cream(dictionary)
sour 2, verb(dictionary)
sour 1, adjective(dictionary)

sour(2) (iou)



sour verb. ME.
[from the adjective.]
verb intrans.
a. Become sour; acquire a sour or acid taste; fig. become unpleasant or disagreeable. ME.
H. E. Bates A bowl of milk was souring in the sun. New Yorker When Dick left the Air Force the marriage soured.
b. Develop a sour temper or disposition; assume a sour expression; become embittered. M18.
A. Price The Brigadier's expression soured, as though the thought..was distasteful to him. A. S. Byatt His mother soured rapidly and ungracefully, and spent much of her time complaining.
verb trans. Make sour; cause to turn acid, spoil in this way; fig. cause to become unpleasant or disagreeable. ME.
S. Brett One of his little tantrums..It..soured the atmosphere. Rugby World & Post The incident sparked off a general punch-up and soured the rest of the match.
b. Of leaven: cause fermentation in (dough etc.). ME.
c. Apply diluted acid to (cloth etc.) in bleaching. M18.
verb trans. Cause to be sour in disposition; embitter. L16.
B. Vine She..had been permanently soured by her disillusionment.
Phrases: sour on colloq. (chiefly US) take a dislike or distaste to. soured on N. Amer. & Austral. colloq. embittered with.
souring noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) (now chiefly dial.) a substance which causes sourness or fermentation; (c) dial. a sour variety of apple, a crab-apple: LME.