acidulous
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin acidulus (“sourish, acidulous”), diminutive of acidus (“acid, sour”). See acid.
[edit] Adjective
acidulous
- Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as an acidulous tincture - Edmund Burke
- 1931: He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X. -- W. Somerset Maugham, His Excellency
