Noun: sourdough
| Singular | sourdough |
| Plural | sourdoughs |
Sample Sentences
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The troops went for those fresh tomatoes like sourdoughs going for gold in the Klondike. [1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 80]
Nouns inflected like sourdough
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sour dogh, equivalent to sour + dough. Compare Saterland Frisian Suurdee (“sourdough”), Dutch zuurdeeg (“sourdough”), Low German Suurdeeg (“sourdough”), German Sauerteig (“sourdough”), Danish surdej (“sourdough”), Swedish surdeg (“sourdough”), Icelandic súrdeig (“sourdough”).
2. The senses pertaining to California, Alaska and the Yukon derive from the distinctive pouches of bread starter (starter dough used to make sourdough) worn on a belt or around the neck by experienced prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush and California Gold Rush. See: Middle English Nouns '
sour dogh', Dutch Nouns '
zuurdeeg', German Nouns '
Sauerteig', Swedish Nouns '
surdeg'.