sweet-and-sour
sweet-and-sour · sweet-and-sours
Any dish that combines sweet and sour flavours, especiallyAny dish that combines sweet and sour flavours, especially
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)Any dish that combines sweet and sour flavours, especially
Any dish that combines sweet and sour flavours, especially:
(countable, uncountable)A Chinese-style dish with sweet-and-sour sauce.
(countable, uncountable)Candy with a sour taste, often dusted with fizzy sherbet.
(countable, uncountable)A sweetened sour pickle, or a combination of sweet and sour pickles.
Forms
plural: sweet-and-soursWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.