Sourer vs Scourer - What's the difference?
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As an adjective sourer is ( sour). As a noun scourer is a tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookwares.
sourer English
Adjective
(head)
(sour)
Anagrams
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sour English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowr
Adjective
( er)
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
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* Francis Bacon
- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- (rfex)
Tasting or smelling rancid.
- (rfex)
Peevish or bad-tempered.
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* Shakespeare
- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
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(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
- (rfex)
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
- sour adversity
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Noun
The sensation of a sour taste.
- (rfex)
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- (rfex)
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- (Edmund Spenser)
Derived terms
* laundry sour
Verb
(label) To make sour.
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(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
(label) To become disenchanted.
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(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (Mortimer)
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
Anagrams
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scourer English
Noun
( en noun)
A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookwares.
- A scourer may be in the form of a mesh (ball) of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side.
Agent noun of scour; a person who scours.
(obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
- In those days of highwaymen and scourers . — Macaulay.
See also
* scourer pad
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