sour tooth

plural sour tooths · alternative sour-tooth

1. idiomaticsingularuncommonA liking for foods that are sour.

   Fruits are sweet! I hate anything sweet! I have a sour tooth.

   2015 November 16, Kaivallya Dasu, “Boulder Clearing”, in Enchantress of Elektra, Partridge Publishing India, →ISBN, unnumbered page

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   Robin and Jay Brown weren't the kind of kids to be caught with their hands in the cookie jar — they each had a sour (sometimes a half-sour) tooth, and pilfered pickles instead of desserts.

   1997 April 14, “Deep in a Pickle on the Upper West Side”, in New York, volume 30, number 13, page 26

   Use about an equal weight of sugar (or less, if you've got a sour tooth), top with your favorite crumble or sweet biscuit topping and bake

   2014, Tricia Cornell, The Minnesota Farmers Market Cookbook: A Guide to Selecting and Preparing the Best Local Produce with Seasonal Recipes from Chefs and Farmers, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 59

2. countableidiomaticrareSomeone with a liking for sour foods.

   Some "sour-tooths" prefer a sweet, non-acid fruit to an acid non-sweet one, while others do not.

   1944, Journal of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture