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
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The great burdock leaves, heated by the sun, discharged a strong sourish odor, and the child felt it to be something that would never change.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
He always left a trail of sourish air behind him.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Slightly sour; subÐacid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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 Ernst Von Wildenbruch