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souse

noun
/saʊs/

Etymology

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

  1. derived from *sultijō✻
  2. derived from *sultija✻
  3. derived from sous
  4. inherited from souse

Definitions

  1. Something kept or steeped in brine.

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

  2. The act of sousing

    The act of sousing; a plunging into water.

  3. A drunkard.

    • "If there's any, giving in charge here I'll give you in charge for sneaking my beer, you slop-bellied old souse!" exclaimed Peter.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To immerse in liquid

      To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.

      • (Although I bee well soused in this showere,)
      • For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]
      • As for my ſelf, they uſed to ſowſe me over head and ears in water when I was a boy

    2. To steep in brine

      To steep in brine; to pickle.

    3. The act of sousing, or swooping.

      • Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare

    4. A heavy blow.

      • With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,

    5. To strike, beat.

    6. To fall heavily.

      • Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.
      • Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air

    7. To pounce upon.

      • [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

    8. Suddenly, without warning.

      • Mr Nash […] suddenly taking the gentleman by the collar of his coat, and waistband of his breeches, threw him souse over the parapet to the object of his love.

    9. A sou (the French coin).

    10. A small amount.

    11. Pronunciation spelling of source.

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Derived

soused, sousemeat, souser, unsoused

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA