as in acidic
causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids
real French Chablis is going to taste sourish to someone who's had only the jug wine marketed under that name
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Adjective
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The site should have well-draining loose soil with a slightly acidic or neutral pH (6.0-7.0).—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2025 -
Soil pH level: The pH level tells you how acidic your soil is.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But his prematurely craggy voice and melodies, combined with arrangement rooted in string bands, were nothing like the soft-rock dudes on the radio; if anything, Hurley was acid folk.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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For the Abe Lincoln tomato, for example — a century-old, disease-resistant red slicer with rich, slightly acid flavor — there is seed from listers in California, Nebraska, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Jersey.—
Margaret Roach,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Their somewhat symbiotic friendship turns sour when Genovese orders a hit on the former, turning the streets of New York into a duplicitous battleground for survival.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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But things quickly went sour following the walk-off RBI from Prairie View A&M’s Trenton Bush.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Sourish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sourish. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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