Sour

Definition: Sour

Sour

Adjective

1. Smelling of fermentation or staleness.

2. Having a sharp biting taste.

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

4. In an unpalatable state; "sour milk".

5. Inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key".

6. 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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd".

Noun

1. A liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.

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

3. The property of being acidic.

Verb

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

2. Make sour or more sour.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SOUR

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Sour

Aggravation

Verb: aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.

Discontent

In high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Dissuasion

Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery).

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Impossibility

Phrase: the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere lites; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; il a le mer _ boire.

Noun: impossibility; Adjective: what cannot, what can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness.

Pain

Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).

Sullenness

Adjective: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly; (discourteous).

Crosswords: Sour

I've been lookin' for your sweet and sour chicken ass. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

Not too sweet, not too sour. (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

Even the future, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour. (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

A business deal that went sour. Plus I made the mistake of sleeping with his sister (The Fast and the Furious; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson)

She was a Sour Girl the day that she met me (Sour Girl; performing artist: Stone Temple Pilots)

Sweeter than sour (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

Leave 'em with a taste sour as vinegar in they mouth (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem)

If I'm not feeling any less sour (Alone Again (Naturally); performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

To taste the sweet and sour. (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson)

To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. (references; author: unknown)

Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container? (references; author: unknown)

Some people are bitter, some sour; others are sweet. Who you hang out with depends on your taste. (references; author: unknown)

Sour Gripes (1963)

Tweet and Sour (1956)

Sour Grapes (1950)

The Sour Puss (1940)

Love and Sour Notes (1915)

Sour Girl (performing artist: Stone Temple Pilots)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Gherkins Sour Pickles (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bons Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure (reference)

• Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia (reference)

• Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat--Not a Sour Puss (reference)

• Sour Grapes: A Savannah Reid Mystery (reference)

• Sweet & Sour Grapes: The Story of the Machine Tool Industry (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Authorized International Edition of the Soyuzmultfilm Library (in Russian) Vol 42: The Sour Cream Village series (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stone Sour [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Sweet & Sour (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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(1) color slide shows a pint of Breakstone brand sour cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

(6) color slides show different types of cooked chicken. (2) bowl of chicken and rice, (1) cooked piece of baked chicken, (1) chicken cutlet sandwich, (1) fried chicken drumstick, (1) sweet and sour chicken. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

From on overhead angle, a plate of potatoes and green beans, a bowl of tomatoes and yellow peppers with sour cream dip and a tossed salad are shown on a white tablecloth. Across the middle of the table, grey letters read: "Include 3-5 servings of vegetables daily". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" April 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Jeff. D hung on a "sour apple tree" or treason made odious. Credit: Library of Congress.

Parody. 605,000 sour grapes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ach, it's sour too!. Credit: Library of Congress.

This man is selling you sour grapes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They made a sour face at every development of the nation

The faint sour stink of rotted cabbages came towards him from the kitchengardens on the rising ground above the river

Well, one day they give us some beans that was sour.

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Health

Testing may demonstrate a reduced ability to detect odors (hyposmia) or to taste (hypogeusia) sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. (references)

Foods high in saturated fats such as fatty meats, butter, bacon, cream (light, coffee, sour cream, etc.), and whole milk cheeses are likely to be high in total fat. Most foods with saturated fat are also high in cholesterol because they are fats from animal origin. (references)

Business

Sour gas is treated at those plants and further processed into dry gas and liquids. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

The outlook for the FY 2001 budget quickly turned sour when the Rupiah depreciated rapidly and interest rates rose. (references)

Bahrain

The LSPD project will also include new sulfur recovery and sour water treatment facilities and associated offfsites and utilities. (references)

Moldova

Hincesti dairy is currently producing milk, buttermilk, sour cream, liquid and regular yogurt, reajenka (liquid sour cream) and butter. (references)

Travel

Chad

Colorful clothing, gum arabic, local spices such as ginger, foods, grains, mats, curdled sour milk, are all for sale. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Having a sour quality

Expressions using "sour": be sour ♦ dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen ♦ flat sour ♦ flat sour spoilage ♦ go sour ♦ make smb. sour ♦ make sour ♦ processed sour milk ♦ render sour ♦ say the grapes are sour ♦ sour as a crab ♦ sour bean ♦ sour cherry ♦ sour cherry juice ♦ sour cherry tree ♦ sour cream ♦ sour dock ♦ sour dough ♦ sour fig ♦ sour food ♦ sour gourd ♦ sour grape ♦ sour grapes ♦ sour grass ♦ sour gum ♦ Sour Lake ♦ sour mash ♦ sour mash whiskey ♦ sour milk ♦ sour milk production ♦ sour orange ♦ sour orange tree ♦ sour plum ♦ sour salt ♦ sour sop ♦ sour taste ♦ sour the temper ♦ sour tupelo ♦ sour up ♦ to sour ♦ turn sour ♦ whiskey sour ♦ whisky sour. Additional references.

Beginning with "sour": sour-breathed, sour-cream, sour-faced, sour-grapefruit, sour-grapes, sour-gum family, sour-looking, sour-milk, sour-mouthed, sour-smelling, sour-sweet, sour-tasting, sour-tempered.

Ending with "sour": sweet-and-sour.

Albanian

acid (acetous, acid, mordant, tart). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تخمر (ferment, fermenting, sweat, working), ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), ‏رائب (curdled), ‏رطب (clammy, dabble, dabby, damp, dampen, dank, foul, humid, humidify, moist, moisten, refresh, soggy, watery, wet), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏أصبح نكد المزاج, ‏شرس (gnarl, grim, ill, pungent, ratty, ruthless, surly), ‏تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deteriorate, deterioration, drop, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, retrogradation, run to seed, suffer, tumble), ‏فج (immature, unripe), ‏تحمض (acidification, acidify), ‏حامض (acid, acidulant, acidulous, sharp, tart), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏حمض (acidify, acidulated), ‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏خمر (boose, booze, brew, ferment, inebriant, port, raise, red, vintage, wine). (various references)

Asturian

ñata agrín (sour cream). (various references)

Bulgarian 

незадоволителен (dissatisfactory, ill, inadequate, lame, lamentable, meager, meagre, unsatisfactory), подкиселявам (acidify, make sour), подквасен (leavened), подквасвам (make to yoghurt), провалям се (break down, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, fizzle out, fold, go awry, go phut, go to pot, go wrong, misfire, slump, tumble down), прокиснал (foxy), прокисвам се, излизам несполучлив, неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, high, huffish, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, resentful, rusty, snappish, stroppy, sullen), негоден (disabled, disqualified, effete, incompetent, ineligible, moth-eaten, no good, outworn, played out, punk, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsuitable, waste), некачествен, озлобявам се, огорчавам се (be grieved), вкиснал, кисел (acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, crabbed, crabby, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, livery, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, tart, vinegar, vinegary), коктейл с лимон, противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Cebuano

aslom nga gatas (sour cream). (various references)

Chinese 

酸 (ache, acid, sore). (various references)

Czech

sražený (clotted), zkysaný, zatrpklý (acidulated, acrimonious, bitter, embittered, jaundiced, resentful, sardonic), trpký (bitter, dry, harsh, painful, tart, unpalatable), nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, snappy, splenetic, sullen, surly), nevlídný (dismal, gruff, inclement, rugged, stern, surly, testy, uncongenial, unfriended, unfriendly, unkind), nakyslý (acidulated), kyselý (acid, tart). (various references)

Danish

sur (acetous, acid, dismal, tart). (various references)

Dutch

zuur (acerbic, acetous, acid, bitter, brutal, gruff, harsh, heartburn, rough, sullen, surly, tart, unkind, unpleasant), wrang (acerbic, acid, acrid, astringent, constringent, harsh, tart). (various references)

Esperanto

malafabla (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, surly, unkind, unpleasant), acidiĝi (grow sour, turn), acida (acid, tart), acerba (acerbic, acid, harsh, tart). (various references)

Faeroese

súrur (acetous, acid, tart), óblíður (bleak, brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Farsi 

مزه اسیدداشتن , تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), ترش شدن , ترش بودن , ترش (Acetic, Acid, Tart). (various references)

Finnish

hapan (acid). (various references)

French

aigre, acide, s'aigrir (grow sour), acerbe. (various references)

Frisian

sûre rjemme (sour cream). (various references)

German

sauer (acetous, acid, acidic, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, tartly, uptight), säuerlich (acidulous, sharp, sourish, sourishly, tart). (various references)

Greek 

στυφόσ (acrid, tart), ξινός (cream, grapes}, sour {milk), ξινισμένος (turned sour), ξυνόσ (crabbed), ξυνίζω, θυμώνω (fume, lose one΄s temper, miff), δριμύς (bitter, severe). (various references)

Hawaiian

acid (acetous, acid, tart). (various references)

Hebrew 

חמוץ (acerb, acid, acidification, acidulation, souring, tart). (various references)

Hungarian

savanyú (acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, crabby, dour, eager, frumpish, tart, to wear a long face), fanyar (acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, austere, crusty, dry, frumpish, harsh, tart). (various references)

Icelandic

súrna (acidify, grow sour), súr (acetous, acid, tart), beiskur (acerbic, acid, acrid, harsh, tart), óvingjarnlegur (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), óvænn (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Indonesian

masam (wry), kandi (acid, pouch, small bag, tamarind), asam (acid, tart). (various references)

Inuktitut

immuk igunaqsimajuq (sour cream). (various references)

Irish

searbh (acetous, acid, tart), aigéadach (acetous, acid, tart). (various references)

Italian

agro (acetous, acid, tart, tartness, vinegarish), acido (acetous, acid, acidic, acids, acrid, crabbed, tart), rude (brutal, coarse, gruff, harsh, rough, rude, rugged, sullen, surly, tough, unkind, unpleasant), brusco (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, brutal, cavalier, downright, gruff, harsh, offhand, offhanded, outspoken, rough, sharp, short, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

酢っぱい, 酸っぱい　 (acid), 酸っぱい (acid), 酸い　 (acid), 酸い (acid), サロン的 (exclusive, sanction, sanctuary, Sangerism, sangria, sans couture, seamless, social, sour cream, Sun, sunglasses, Sunkist, suntan oil, thank you, Thanksgiving Day), 不毛 (barren, sterile, unproductive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すっぱい (acid), すい (acid), ふもう (barren, sterile, unproductive), サワー . (various references)

Korean 

신 (Divine, GOD). (various references)

Manx

sooraghey (leaven), soor (leavened, verjuice), sharroo (acid, acidific, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, cutting, embittered, sardonic, tart, vitriolic), gyere (rigid, rigorous, sharp, tart), geyre (abrupt, acrid, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging), geayraghey (blowing), geayr (acid, acidific, keen, sharp), gear (sharp, spicy, stale). (various references)

Norwegian

sur (acerbic, acetous, acid, bitter, crabby, dismal, grumpy, tart). (various references)

Papiamen

ásido (acetous, acid, tart). (various references)

Pig Latin

oursay.(various references)

Polish

nieuprzejmy (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Portuguese

azedo (acetous, musty, sharp, tart, vinegary), acre (acerbic, acre, acrid, bitter, mordacious, poignant, pungent, sharp, tart, vinegary), ácido (acetous, acid, austere, sharp, tart). (various references)

Provencal

crema agra (sour cream). (various references)

Romanian

supãrãcios (cantankerous, cross-grained, huffish, huffy, humoursome, irascible, irritable, liveried, peevish, pettish, scrupulous, short tempered, testy, tetchy, touchy), stãtut (aged, close, dead, flat, frowzy, musty, stale, stuffy), se acri (prick), se acidula, morocãnos (adust, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy), acidula (acidify, acidulate), acidulat (acidulated, tart), acri (acetify, acidify, Fox), acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrid, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), amãrî (agrieve, embitter, envenom, sadden), amar (bitter, bitterly, bitterness, dreadful, gall, poignant, rude, salt, severe, sore, suffering), acid (acid, acidulous), irascibil (bilious, cranky, fretful, huffish, irascible, irritable, magged, quick tempered, short tempered, waspy), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), necopt (crude, green, half-baked, immature, raw, sodden, unripe), posac (adust, mopish, morose, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young). (various references)

Russian 

кислый (acetous, acid, acidic, persilicic, tart, vinegary). (various references)

Samoan

kulimi oona (sour cream). (various references)

Scottish

searbh (acrid, bitter, disagreeable, pungent), goirt (painful, salt, sore). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

namćorast, nakiseo (vinegary), kiseo (acetate, acetous, acid, acidulated, tart), jedak (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, scathing, sharp, vitriolic). (various references)

Shona

mutsvanzva (sour plum tree). (various references)

Spanish

agrio (acetous, acid, acidic, acrid, bitter, citrous, jaundiced, lurid, tart), brusko (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), bronco (abrupt, brazen, brittle, brutal, crude, gruff, harsh, raw, rough, ruffianly, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant, unworked, unwrought), agriarse (acid, acidly, turn, turn about, turn around, turn sour). (various references)

Sranan

swa (acetous, acid, tart). (various references)

Swedish

sur (acid, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, dismal, grouchy, Moody, morose, ratty, sharp, shirty, surly, wet). (various references)

Tagalog

maásim (acetous, acid, tart). (various references)

Turkish

buruk (acetous, acid, acrid, sec, subacid, tart). (various references)

Turkmen 

turюy. (various references)

Ukrainian

ставати похмурим, скисати, роздратувати, кислятина, кислий розчин, кислий (acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, acidic, eager, raised, tart, vinegary), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, stinking, underfoot, wicked), незадоволений (disaffected, discontent, dissatisfied, non-content, unsatisfied), заквашувати (leaven), прокислий, поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, shady, third rate, unlovely, weak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chua chua, bị chua. (various references)

Welsh

suro, sur (acid), trwynsur (morose), egr (cheeky, savage, severe, sharp). (various references)

Yucatec

pah (acetous, acid, tart). (various references)

acerbam, acerbi, acerbo, acerbus, acescere, acidus, amarus, aspera, asperam, asperas, asperum, austerus, fermenti, fermento, fermentum, inmitis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sour": sourball, sourballs, source, sourcebook, sourcebooks, sourced, sourceless, sources, sourcing, sourdine, sourdines, sourdough, sourdoughs, soured, sourer, sourest, souring, sourish, sourly, sourness, sournesses, sourpuss, sourpusses, sours, soursop, soursops, sourwood, sourwoods. (additional references)

Words ending with "sour": tressour, vavasour. (additional references)

Words containing "sour": multisource, outsourcing, outsourcings, resource, resourceful, resourcefully, resourcefulness, resourcefulnesses, resources, tressours, tsouris, unsoured, vavasours. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sour" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isou, oscr, osir, osor, osr, osu, saru, semur, seur, sgoir, Sgur, shour, Sigur, siru, sjur, skor, skour, sloor, soer, soir, solur, sonr, Soomro, soor, soory, sor, sorub, sorue, sorug, sorul, sorum, soruo, sorup, sorur, soue, soui, soum, souq, sourc, souw, soux, spour, sturr, suir, surr, suuri, swur, Tsuruo, zoor, zor, zour. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ours.

-1 letter: ors, our, sou.

-2 letters: or, os, so, us.

+1 letter: duros, euros, fours, hours, lours, pours, roues, roups, rouse, roust, routs, scour, sorus, sours, stour, sudor, torus, tours, yours.

+2 letters: amours, arouse, aurous, bourgs, bourns, bourse, burros, cerous, chorus, clours, cornus, corpus, course, courts, crocus, croups, crouse, cruors, curios, cursor, dorsum, douras, douser, drouks, durocs, erugos, flours, fluors, forums, furors, gourds, groups, grouse, grouts, guiros, houris, houser, humors, jorums, jurors, kouros, mohurs, mourns, mouser, mucors, mucros, occurs, odours, onrush, ouster, outers, parous, porous, poseur, ramous, rimous, robust, rogues, roques, rouens, rouges, roughs, rounds, roused, rouser, rouses, rousts, routes, rouths, rufous, rugosa, rugose, rugous, rumors, sapour, savour, scours, serous, shroud, souari, soucar, source, soured, sourer, sourly, souter, sprout, stoure, stours, stoury, stroud, stupor, suborn, succor, sudors, suitor, torous, trouts, tumors, turbos, tussor, tutors, uprose, upsoar, uredos, vrouws.