Sourdough

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sourdough
       adj : leavened with a small amount of fermented dough; "sourdough
             bread" [syn: {sourdough(a)}]
       n 1: a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by
            pioneers for making bread
       2: a settler or prospector (especially in western United States


          or northwest Canada and Alaska)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "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