sweetsour

Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle.

The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010

Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle.

Ulysses 2003

Henry wanted to correct this oversight as soon as possible, before Helen could take another portion of green beans (rich in vitamin A, which helped rebuild broken bones), before she was distracted by the sweetsour flavor of the salad, before the rhubarb fool (two cups sugar to three cups of fruit) made her drowsy and inattentive.

Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

But as I demonstrated above with the example of "sweetsour of her spittle," and as John Kidd has demonstrated with a growing list of examples, such as misspellings of the names "Conolly" and "Thrift," some "critical judgments" are little more than blunders.

The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters Gabler, Hans Walter 1989

Instead, Joyce wrote "sweetsour spittle," and then added the two words "of her."

The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters Gabler, Hans Walter 1989

Then, Gabler continues, Joyce revised (still in the Rosenbach) to read "sweetsour of her spittle," this being the version that Gabler accepted into his text.

The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters Gabler, Hans Walter 1989

In revision, he makes it "sweetsour of her spittle," poetically condensing the adjectives into an oxymoronic compound, and adding the personal pronoun to intensify the recall in Bloom's memory.

The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters Gabler, Hans Walter 1989

For example, in the single illustration that he offers, "sweetsour of her spittle," Gabler's account of the archival basis for this particular emendation badly misrepresents the facts.

The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters Gabler, Hans Walter 1989

Thubron is a limpid writer who has all the sharpness of eye that Moorhouse has and can also present his version of Russia with a particular sweetsour flavor.

Traveling Light Dinnage, Rosemary 1985

Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911