souse
IPA: sˈuz
noun
- Something kept or steeped in brine.
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
- (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
- A pickle made with salt.
- The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- A person suffering from alcoholism.
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- A heavy blow.
- (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).
- (dated) A small amount.
- (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source. [The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.]
verb
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
- (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
adverb
- (now rare, dialectal) Suddenly, without warning.
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Examples of "souse" in Sentences
- Let's get soused again sometime soon,
- Another version pickled with vinegar is known as souse.
- The term soused herring usually refers to a cooked herring.
- We have something down South that's similar, called "souse".
- The term 'soused herring' usually refers to a cooked herring.
- Apparently not, since Dutch new is raw and soused herring is not.
- A variant is souse, made from pig's feet and pickled with vinegar.
- The article contains soused information and well written paragraphs.
- Hast thou no great bag-pudding, nor hog's-face that is called souse?
- Imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't soused while editing.
- The ergative form of souse must there fore be in the lexicon implicitly.
- All external links are to the official site or to open souse repositories.
- It is sometimes also known as souse meat, particularly if pickled with vinegar.
- But, my writing beverage - just so you all won't think me a souse, is Cafe Francais.
- "We frow water on 'em!" said Baby William, laughing with delight as his grandfather made-believe bite some "souse" off his ears.
- The araguato at the "tail-end" of the bridge, not knowing what had happened, and thinking all was right for swinging himself across, slipped his tail from the branch just at the very same instant that the wounded one let go, and the whole chain fell "souse" into the water!
- In all probability, his sudden "souse" into the water had astonished Bruin himself; -- from that moment all his thoughts were to provide for his own safety, and, with this intention, he was endeavouring to get back to the surface of the snowdrift, when Alexis first caught sight of his snout.