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sweet-and-sour

[ sweet-n-souuhr, -sou-er ]

adjective

  1. cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.


sweet-and-sour

adjective

  1. (of food) cooked in a sauce made from sugar and vinegar and other ingredients
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweet-and-sour1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

The fried chicken skins I got were a bit tough, but served with a nicely nuanced sweet-and-sour sauce.

The restaurant, which has served dishes like hot-pot grouper and tofu, and sweet-and-sour pork with pineapple to Torontonians for nearly 50 years, was briefly name-checked in “Euphoria.”

Beyond dishes and ingredients, though, Korkosz also acknowledges a very important flavor profile within Polish food: fermented foods and sweet-and-sour components.

From Salon

The now-familiar sweet-and-sour flavour of General Tso's chicken was meant to woo a foreigner's taste buds, Mr Pei says.

From BBC

The smell of garlic, ginger, and sweet-and-sour chicken wafted through the air.

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