sourball
Americannoun
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a round piece of hard candy with a tart or acid fruit flavoring.
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Informal. a chronic grouch.
Etymology
Origin of sourball
Example Sentences
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It’s an undemandingly enjoyable and reassuringly predictable dramedy in which nothing, not even the sourball attitudes of its comically unpleasant malcontents, ever is allowed to get out of hand or unduly strain credibility.”
From Washington Post
Among its choice lines: “The sourball of every revolution: after the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?”
From New York Times
When I was hospitalized in the early 1980s with an acute case of ulcerative colitis, the doctors tried to save my inflamed colon by throttling my diet down to ice chips and sourballs.
From New York Times
"Oh, hush!" sobbed the giant, rolling his great sourball eyes.
From Project Gutenberg
Not some sourball like your friend Ritchie, who tried to operate on his own hook, without real plans or system, but a complete sub rosa organization, bent on starting a revolution and taking over.
From Project Gutenberg
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