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

The whole is covered with leaves and heavy stones laid upon them; here it undergoes a second Fermentation and becomes sourish, in which condition they say it will keep good 10 or 12 months.

From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by Cook, James

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

There it was dark, and one smelled the boards of an old wooden box that stood there, garden loam, and the sourish barberries.

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

So after a bed has been slept in for four or five nights, if it has not been 6thrown well open in the morning, it begins to have a stuffy, foul, sourish smell.

From The Child's Day by Hutchinson, Woods