"sweet-and-sour" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more sweet-and-sour [comparative], most sweet-and-sour [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} sweet-and-sour (comparative more sweet-and-sour, superlative most sweet-and-sour)
  1. (cooking) Having both sweet and sour or tart taste. Categories (topical): Cooking Synonyms: sweet and sour Derived forms: sweet-and-sour sauce Related terms: barbecue sauce Translations (combined sweet and sour taste): ὀξύγλυκυς (oxúglukus) (Ancient Greek), ချိုချဉ် (hkyuihkyany) (Burmese), 甜酸 (tim⁴ syun¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 酸甜 (suāntián) (Chinese Mandarin), 糖醋 (tángcù) (english: sweet and sour) (Chinese Mandarin), 甜酸 (tiánsuān) (english: sweet and slightly sour) (Chinese Mandarin), sladkokyselý (Czech), zoetzuur (Dutch), hapanimelä (Finnish), agridoce (Galician), süßsauer (German), asam manis (Indonesian), koloke (Indonesian), keluyuk (Indonesian), مایخوش (mayhoş) (Ottoman Turkish), ملس (malas) (Persian), agridoce (Portuguese), ки́сло-сла́дкий (kíslo-sládkij) (Russian), sötsur (Swedish), agridulse (Tagalog), mayhoş (Turkish), ки́сло-соло́дкий (kýslo-solódkyj) (Ukrainian), ви́нний (výnnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Having both positive and negative traits, or inspiring conflicting good and bad feelings. Synonyms (inspiring good and bad feelings): bittersweet
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Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.