Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A round sugar-plum, very strongly flavored with lemon.
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Examples
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He's piling up a sour-ball that'll make him fight a policeman some day.
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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When a dog gets a perpetual sour-ball like that he's finished.
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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When a dog gets a perpetual sour-ball like that he's finished.
Chapter 29 1917
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In time, very likely, he would be a hermit, or a "sour-ball" like Canby; he would sit at dances looking like a bull-elk that's been whipped out of the herd, and the girls would giggle at him.
The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916
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He is an old sour-ball who thinks he is alive but evidently has been in the cemetery a long time.
Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892
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