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soum
English
Etymology 1
Noun
soum (plural soums)
- Alternative form of sowm (“proportion of sheep or cattle for pasture”)
Verb
soum (third-person singular simple present soums, present participle souming, simple past and past participle soumed)
- Alternative form of sowm (“determine the proportion of sheep or cattle for pasture”)
Etymology 2
Noun
soum
- plural of som
Anagrams
- MOUs, MoUs, Mous, SUMO, Sumo, muso, sumo
soum From the web:
sour
English
Alternative forms
- sower, sowre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sour, from Old English s?r (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?r, from Proto-Germanic *s?raz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sa?(?)?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
Adjective
sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
- Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
- 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":
- A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
- 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- (of a person's character) Peevish or bad-tempered.
- (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
- (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
Antonyms
- (petroleum): sweet
Derived terms
- go sour
- sourly
- sourness
Translations
Noun
sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
Derived terms
- laundry sour
Translations
Verb
sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
Derived terms
- besour
- unsour
Translations
Anagrams
- Ruso, ours
French
Adjective
sour (feminine singular soure, masculine plural sours, feminine plural soures)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of sûr
Preposition
sour
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of sur
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English s?r
Alternative forms
- sower, soure, sowre
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?r/
Adjective
sour
- sour, acidic, bitter
- foul-smelling, rancid
- fermented, curdled
- unpleasant, unattractive
Descendants
- English: sour
- Scots: sour
Etymology 2
From Old French essorer.
Verb
sour
- Alternative form of soren (“to soar”)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sora
Etymology
From Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swés?r.
Noun
sour f (plural sours)
- (Puter, Vallader) sister
Coordinate terms
- (in terms of gender):
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frar
- (Puter) frer
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