What does souse mean?
Souse means Something kept or steeped in brine..
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/saʊs/ · noun
Something kept or steeped in brine..
"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.
(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
As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.
Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare
With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,
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.
Use souse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Souse means Something kept or steeped in brine..
Common synonyms include alcoholic, sot, suck-pint, lush.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"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.
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