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Souse Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Souse? [n] the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [n] pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled [n] a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [v] cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [v] cook in a marinade; "souse herring" [v] become drunk; drink excessively [v] immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Souse: alcoholic \| boozer \| dip \| dipsomaniac \| douse \| douse \| dowse \| drench \| drenching \| dunk \| hit it up \| inebriate \| lush \| plunge \| soak \| soak \| soaker \| soaking \| sop \| sousing Related Terms \| Find terms related to Souse: See Also \| bate \| bedraggle \| booze \| brine \| cook \| dabble \| drink \| drunk \| drunkard \| duck \| flush \| fuddle \| immerse \| inebriate \| ret \| rummy \| sausage \| sluice \| sop \| sot \| wet \| wetting Souse In Webster's Dictionary \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. \Souse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sousing}.] [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See {Souse} pickle.] 1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. ``A soused gurnet.'' --Shak. 2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. They soused me over head and ears in water. --Addison. 3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. --Gascoigne. \Souse\, v. i. [Probably fr. OF. sors, p. p. of sordre to rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in general, but also confused with {Souse}, v. t. See {Source}.] To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. --Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J. Dryden. Jr. \Souse\, v. t. To pounce upon. [R.] [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak. \Souse\, n. The act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. --Spenser. \Souse\, adv. With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.

Souse Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Souse?

[n] the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"
[n] pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
[n] a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
[v] cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
[v] cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
[v] become drunk; drink excessively
[v] immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup"

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Souse In Webster's Dictionary

\Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also
{souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.]
1. Pickle made with salt.

2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled
   ears, feet, etc., of swine.

         And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath
         cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser.

3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.]

4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.


\Souse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soused}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sousing}.] [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See {Souse}
pickle.]
1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. ``A soused gurnet.''
   --Shak.

2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

         They soused me over head and ears in water.
                                               --Addison.

3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.

         Although I be well soused in this shower.
                                               --Gascoigne.


\Souse\, v. i. [Probably fr. OF. sors, p. p. of sordre to
rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in
general, but also confused with {Souse}, v. t. See {Source}.]
To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall
suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.

      For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy
      main.                                    --Marston.

      Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J.
                                               Dryden. Jr.


\Souse\, v. t.
To pounce upon. [R.]

      [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers,
      To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak.


\Souse\, n.
The act of sousing, or swooping.

      As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse
      full near.                               --Spenser.


\Souse\, adv.
With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.

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