sourdough
See also: sour-dough and sour dough
English
Etymology
From Middle English sour dogh, equivalent to sour + dough, compare German Sauerteig. The senses pertaining to California, Alaska and the Yukon derive from the distinctive pouches of bread starter (starter dough used to make sourdough) worn on a belt or around the neck by experienced prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush and California Gold Rush.[1][2]
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Hyphenation: sour‧dough
Noun
sourdough (countable and uncountable, plural sourdoughs)
- A type of bread dough leavened with yeast and lactobacilli that produce acids giving a sour taste. [from 14th c.]
- Synonym: sourdough bread
- (countable, slang) An old-timer, especially in Alaska. [from 1898]
- 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 80:
- "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:
- (countable, Yukon) A permanent resident of the territory. Someone who has lived in the Yukon during all four seasons.
- Antonym: cheechako
- (countable, historical) A 49er, a California Gold Rush miner.
- (obsolete) Leaven; an agent that makes dough rise.
Alternative forms
- (dough): sour dough
Derived terms
Translations
dough
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old-timer
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References
- ^ (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2008 March 28 (last accessed), archived from the original on 14 September 2009
- ^ Sourdough baking
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