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

He then took another taste, and remarked, "It's sourish."

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

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

Boniclapper is milk which has stood till it has acquired a pleasant sourish taste, and a thick slippery substance.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

They have not a balsamic, but mostly a sweetish or sourish flavor.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.