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1
causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids
- an acid-tasting medicine
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2
having or showing a habitually bad temper
- with her acid personality, my aunt could be relied upon to bring some much-needed balance to the holiday gush
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- bearish,
- bilious,
- bloody-minded
- [chiefly British],
- cantankerous,
- disagreeable,
- dyspeptic,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- ornery,
- splenetic,
- surly
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The first known use of acid was in 1649
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