Definition of
Souse
- (noun, act) the act of making something completely wet
- (noun, food) pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
- (noun, person) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- (verb, change) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- (verb, change) cook in a marinade
- (verb, consumption) become drunk or drink excessively
- (verb, contact) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
dip the brush into the paint
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Synonyms of Souse
alcoholic, alky, boozer, dip, dipsomaniac, douse, dowse, drench, drenching, dunk, hit it up, inebriate, lush, plunge, soak, soaker, soaking, sop, sousing
Alternate forms of Souse
Hyponyms: bate, bedraggle, brine, dabble, dip, douse, draggle, duck, flush, ret, sluice, sop
Hypernyms: booze, cook, drink, drunk, drunkard, fuddle, immerse, inebriate, plunge, rummy, sausage, sot, wet, wetting, wino
Origin of the word Souse
- late 14c., "to pickle, steep in vinegar," from O.Fr. sous (adj.) "preserved in salt and vinegar," from Frank. *sultja (related to O.Saxon sultia "salt water"), from P.Gmc. *salt-, *sult- (see salt). The noun meaning "pig parts preserved and pickled" is recorded from late 14c. The adj. soused "drunk" is first recorded 1610s, on notion of one "p… more
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