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sourdough
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sourdough has 2 senses
- sourdough(n = noun.substance) - a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread; is a kind of leaven, leavening
- sourdough(n = noun.person) - a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska); is a kind of prospector, colonist, settler
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sourdough, n. US 1 fermenting dough, esp. that left over from a previous baking, used as leaven.
2 an old-timer in Alaska etc.
2 an old-timer in Alaska etc.
Etymology
dial., = leaven, in allusion to piece of sour dough for raising bread baked in winter
THESAURUS
sourdough
acid, acidulant, bread-and-butter pickle, butty, chokecherry, collier, crab apple, desert rat, dill pickle, driller, gold digger, gold miner, gold panner, green apple, lemon, lime, miner, mineworker, pickle, prospector, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, verjuice, vinegar, yogurt
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