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English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aʊs|-aʊs

Noun

souse

A corrupt form of Sou.
A pickle made with salt.
Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
The ear; especially, a hog's ear.

Verb

to immerse in liquid; to steep or drench

Derived terms

soused

fa:souse io:souse te:souse vi:souse

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[=oo]; colloq. Eng. sous), n.
A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See Sauce.] [Written also
souce, sowce, and sowse.]
1. Pickle made with salt.
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2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled
ears, feet, etc., of swine.
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And he that can rear up a pig in his house,
Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.
--Tusser.
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3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.]
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4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \Souse\, v. t.
To pounce upon. [R.]
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[The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers,
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \Souse\, n.
The act of sousing, or swooping.
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As a falcon fair
That once hath failed or her souse full near.
--Spenser.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \Souse\, n.
A drunkard. [slang]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \Souse\, adv.
With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \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.
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2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
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They soused me over head and ears in water.
--Addison.
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3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
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Although I be well soused in this shower.
--Gascoigne.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Souse \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.
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For then I viewed his plunge and souse
Into the foamy main. --Marston.
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Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J.
Dryden. Jr.
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WordNet souse
n 1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic,
alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker]
2: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
3: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a
good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, sousing]
v 1: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot
face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop]
2: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or
saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution";
"dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip, plunge,
douse]
3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: soak, inebriate,
hit it up]
4: cook in a marinade; "souse herring"

Moby Dictionary
baptism , baptize , bathe , bender , booze , booze up , boozehound ,
boozify , bottle sucker , brannigan , brew , brewing , bum , burial ,
bury , bust , chug , chug-a-lug , crock , deluge , dip , dipping , douche ,
douse , dousing , drench , drenching , drouk , drown , drunk , duck ,
ducking , dunk , dunking , elbow bender , engulf , engulfment , flush ,
fuddle , ginhound , hooch hound , imbrue , imbruement , imbue ,
imbuement , immerge , immergence , immerse , immersion , impregnate ,
impregnation , infiltrate , infiltration , infuse , infusion , inject ,
injection , inundate , inundation , jag , lave , leach , leaching ,
liquor , liquor up , lixiviate , lixiviation , lush , lusher , macerate ,
maceration , merge , overtake , overwhelm , percolate , percolation ,
permeate , permeation , pickle , plaster , plunge in water , pollute ,
pulping , raise the elbow , rinse , rum hound , rummy , saturate ,
saturation , seethe , seething , sink , sinking , soak , soakage ,
soaking , sodden , sop , sopping , sousing , sponge , steep , steeping ,
stew , stone , submerge , submergence , submerse , submersion , swack ,
swig , swill , swillbelly , swillbowl , swillpot , tank up , tear ,
tipsify , wash , waterlog , wet , whelm , wino