Sourstuff

From sour + stuff.

Alternative forms

• sour-stuff, sour stuff

Full definition of sourstuff

Noun

1. That which is sour, especially to the taste.
• 2011, Adam Fortunate Eagle, Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School:The older people like that sourstuff. An uncle says,“I'llbet youcan't thinkabout a sour picklewithoutdrooling.” sic He's right.
2. (dialectal) Vinegar.

From sour + stuff after Dutch zuurstof ("oxygen") or German Sauerstoff ("oxygen").

Noun

1. (chemistry, rare) Oxygen.
• 1887, The Electrical journal - Volume 18 - Page 482:This is approximately the heat of exploding what the Germans call bang-gas (mixture of sourstuff and waterstuff), the result being liquid.
• 1976, Poul Anderson, Homebrew:For an outshow, the gang of water has two waterstuff unclefts bound to one sourstuff uncleft; the gang of rust has two iron and three sourstuff unclefts; ...
• 1898, Analog science fiction/science fact - Volume 109 - Page 134:Thus, everyday sourstuff has eight neitherbits with its eight firstbits, ...