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Definition of Sourball
1. Noun. Round piece of tart hard candy.
Definition of Sourball
1. Noun. (American English) A hard candy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sourball
1. a sour candy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sourball
Literary usage of Sourball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Washington Close-ups: Intimate Views of Some Public Figures by Edward George Lowry (1921)
"Besides, as everybody knows, Cato was a foreigner as well as a sourball. On both
counts it is a case of thumbs down for him. Unhappily for the truth and for ..."
2. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"... the public is quite as certain to overestimate an antithetical and equally
inconsequent piece of sourball dramaturgy like " Hindle Wakes " as it is to ..."
3. Another Book on the Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1915)
"Isn't it the sourball who writes the world's finest love stories ? And the satirist
who writes the best serious plays ? The only consistently sincere men ..."
4. Another Book on the Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1915)
"Isn't it the sourball who writes the world's finest love stories ? And the satirist
who writes the best serious plays ? The only consistently sincere men ..."
5. Truly Rural by Richardson Little Wright (1922)
"Come on him unawares and you'll hear him murmuring sensuously, the way a small
boy rolls a sourball around in his mouth, such strangely succulent words as ..."
6. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Samuel Austin Allibone (1891)
"Mr. sourball'i European Tour, I'li i la.. 1867, sin. 4 to. 2. Sketches un the
Ice, Phila., 1868, 8vo. Cope, James, Marquis Biddle-Cope, Italy. 1. ..."
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