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Definition of 'souse'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) souse
to plunge into water or other liquid; immerse.

2.  souse
to steep in pickling brine; pickle.

3. (v.i.) souse
to plunge into water or other liquid.

4.  souse
to be steeping or soaking in something.

5. (n.) souse
an act of sousing.

6.  souse
something kept or steeped in pickle, esp. the head, ears, and feet of a pig.

7.  souse
a liquid used as a pickle.

8.  souse
Slang. a drunkard.

9. (v.i.) souse
to swoop down.

10. (v.t.) souse
to swoop or pounce upon.

11. (n. Falconry.) souse
a rising while in flight.

12.  souse
a swooping or pouncing.

Etymology: (1480–90; by-form of source in its earlier literal sense “rising”)

Definition of 'souse'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse
a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

2. (noun) souse
pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled

3. (verb) drenching, soaking, souse, sousing
the act of making something completely wet
"he gave it a good drenching"

4. (verb) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
"souse water on his hot face"

5. (verb) dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
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"

6. (verb) souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up
become drunk or drink excessively

7. (verb) souse
cook in a marinade
"souse herring"

Definition of 'souse'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adverb) souse
with a sudden swoop; violently

2. (noun) souse
a corrupt form of Sou

3. (noun) souse
pickle made with salt

4. (noun) souse
something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine

5. (noun) souse
the ear; especially, a hog's ear

6. (noun) souse
the act of sousing; a plunging into water

7. (noun) souse
the act of sousing, or swooping

8. (verb) souse
to steep in pickle; to pickle

9. (verb) souse
to plunge or immerse in water or any liquid

10. (verb) souse
to drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly

11. (verb) souse
to swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack

12. (verb) souse
to pounce upon

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