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

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

My wife be a good, faithful 'ooman, but vartue wi' her be turned sourish, like that there clarety wine, the only liquor as never did lie easy on my good stomach.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

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

The strong scent of the potherbs in the garden-beds, the sourish smell of the honey, the faint buzzing of the bees, all this enveloped Billy like boundless, delicious indolence.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various