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sowre

sowre is the obsolete spelling of sour.

Meaning of sour

Adjective

sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)

  1. Tasting of acidity.
    • Lemons have a sour taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
    • Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
    • His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
  4. Hostile or unfriendly.
    • He gave me a sour look.
  5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
    • sour land
  6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
    • sour gas smells like rotten eggs

See all 21 meanings of sour

Questions about sowre

What is sowre the obsolete spelling of?
Sowre is the obsolete spelling of sour.

Words near sowre in the dictionary

  1. sownds
  2. sowne
  3. sowpig
  4. sowpigs
  5. SOWPODS
  6. sowre
  7. sows
  8. sows dragon's teeth
  9. sows one's oats
  10. sows one's wild oats
  11. sows the seeds of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sowre (page history and authors); sour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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