sourness
酸味,酸性,酸度,酸味儿
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Definitions
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sour·er, sour·est.
- : having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- : rendered acid or affected by fermentation; fermented.
- : producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not bitter, salt, or sweet.
- : characteristic of something fermented: a sour smell.
- : distasteful or disagreeable; unpleasant.
- : below standard; poor.
- : harsh in spirit or temper; austere; morose; peevish.
- : Agriculture. having excessive acidity.
- : contaminated by sulfur compounds.
- : Music. off-pitch; badly produced: a sour note.
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- : something that is sour.
- : any of various cocktails consisting typically of whiskey or gin with lemon or lime juice and sugar and sometimes soda water, often garnished with a slice of orange, a maraschino cherry, or both.
- : an acid or an acidic substance used in laundering and bleaching to neutralize alkalis and to decompose residual soap or bleach.
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- : to become sour, rancid, mildewed, etc.; spoil: Milk sours quickly in warm weather. The laundry soured before it was ironed.
- : to become unpleasant or strained; worsen; deteriorate: Relations between the two countries have soured.
- : to become bitter, disillusioned, or disinterested: I guess I soured when I learned he was married. My loyalty soured after his last book.
- : Agriculture. to develop excessive acidity.
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- : to make sour; cause sourness in: What do they use to sour the mash?
- : to cause spoilage in; rot: Defective cartons soured the apples.
- : to make bitter, disillusioned, or disagreeable: One misadventure needn't have soured him. That swindle soured a great many potential investors.
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Examples
A kind of pizza with sour cream, bacon, caramelized onions and a strong cheese on top of it.
Monday Gin’s Zero Alcohol Gin offers a familiar base of juniper with citrus and spice botanicals that stands up excellently in a lemon-grenadine gin sour or in a Negroni made with Proteau’s vermouth-style Ludlow Red in lieu of Campari.
As much as everybody around William regards him as a royal ass, we — his intimate confessors — know that he’s a hopeless romantic, hurt and confused, baffled that love can turn sour so quickly.
If you somehow tick all those boxes in 2021, go for it with an included recipe for vodka cocktails topped with bracingly sour sea buckthorn juice.
Butter, heavy cream, cheese, sour cream, creme fraiche and yogurt are all great dairy contenders.
The proper sourness is indicated by the formation of a stiff brat upon the surface which has become uneven.
The amount of lemon juice depends, of course, on the sourness of the apples.
A ruffle of sourness shot over the features of the earl, and was noticed by both eager betters, who exchanged a glance.
It is a rule never to use pearlash for Indian, unless to correct the sourness of milk; it injures the flavor of the meal.
He had no sympathy with a flippant cheerfulness: upon the surface was sourness, discontent, displeasure, ill-will.