Souse

Quick meaning: Souse is a noun meaning Something kept or steeped in brine.

Meaning

Something kept or steeped in brine.

More Meanings

1. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
2. A drunkard.
3. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
4. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
5. The act of sousing, or swooping.
6. A heavy blow.
7. (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.

Example Sentences

(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

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

Word Forms

• souses
• sousing
• soused

Synonyms for souse

Depending on context, synonyms include alcoholic, suck-pint, lush, plunge, sop, dip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dipsomaniac, boozer, alcoholic, inebriate, drench, soaker.

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