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sour dough

sour dough is the alternative form of sourdough.

Meaning of sourdough

Noun

sourdough (countable and uncountable, plural sourdoughs)

  1. A type of bread dough leavened with yeast and lactobacilli that produce acids giving a sour taste.
    Synonyms:
    sourdough bread
  2. (countable, slang) An old-timer, especially in Alaska.
    • The troops went for those fresh tomatoes like sourdoughs going for gold in the Klondike.1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 80
  3. (Yukon, countable) A permanent resident of the territory. Someone who has lived in the Yukon during all four seasons.
    Antonyms:
    cheechako
  4. (countable, historical) A 49er, a California Gold Rush miner.
  5. (obsolete) Leaven; an agent that makes dough rise.

See all 6 meanings of sourdough

Forms of sour dough

pluralsour doughs

Questions about sour dough

What is sour dough the alternative form of?
Sour dough is the alternative form of sourdough.

Words near sour dough in the dictionary

  1. sour corn
  2. sour cream
  3. sour creams
  4. sour crude
  5. sour diesel
  6. sour dough
  7. sour doughs
  8. sour fig
  9. sour figs
  10. sour gas
  11. sour gases

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