acidulous

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin acidulus (“sourish, acidulous”), diminutive of acidus (“acid, sour”). See acid.

Adjective [edit]

acidulous

  1. 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

Translations [edit]

slightly sour
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