sourish

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Duke Vincentio finally returns to square these various accounts, "measure for measure," and give this sourish play an ambiguously happy ending.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nursing infants have a peculiar sourish smell, caused by the butyric acid of the milk, while bottle-fed children smell like strong butter.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Apples are sometimes found that are sweetish on one side and sourish on the other.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

On the table stood pint bottles of sourish Moselle, over the table floated a thick mist of cigar smoke, and through the mist came voices, peevish, grating, discussing the latest event in the Army Register.

From Good Blood by Wildenbruch, Ernst Von

When it has stood by for some time, it acquires an agreeable sourish taste, quite different from the flavour of the fresh plant.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von