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sour-sweet

sour-sweet noun: sweet-and-sour (in both senses).

Noun

sour-sweet (plural sour-sweets)

  1. sweet-and-sour (in both senses)
    • "Did My Mama Like To Dance?" which tells the sour-sweet moment in which the narrator learns about her dead mother's life.1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “The Power Of Black Women Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 13

Forms of sour-sweet

pluralsour-sweets

Questions about sour-sweet

What does sour-sweet mean?
Sour-sweet means sweet-and-sour (in both senses).
What part of speech is sour-sweet?
Sour-sweet is a noun.
What is the plural of sour-sweet?
The plural of sour-sweet is sour-sweets.

Words near sour-sweet in the dictionary

  1. sour-dough
  2. sour-doughs
  3. sour-faced
  4. sour-sop
  5. sour-sops
  6. sour-sweet
  7. Sourashtra
  8. Sourashtras
  9. Sourav
  10. sourball
  11. sourballs

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