Sourest vs Pourest - What's the difference?

sourest | pourest |

As an adjective sourest

is (sour).

As a verb pourest is

sourest

English

Adjective

(head)

(sour)

Anagrams

sour

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) sowr

Adjective

(er)

Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.

* Francis Bacon

All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.

Made rancid by fermentation, etc.

(rfex)

Tasting or smelling rancid.

(rfex)

Peevish or bad-tempered.

* 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.

(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.

(rfex)

Unfortunate or unfavorable.

* Shakespeare

sour adversity

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}

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.

(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.

(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

(Mortimer)

To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

Anagrams

* ----

pourest

English

Verb

(head)