'Souse' definitions:
Definition of 'souse'
From: WordNet
noun
A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse]
noun
Pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
noun
The act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, souse, sousing]
verb
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]
verb
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" [syn: dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse]
verb
verb
Cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, v. i. [Probably fr. OF. sors, p. p. of sordre to rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in general, but also confused with Souse, v. t. See Source.] To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. [1913 Webster]
- For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. --Marston. [1913 Webster]
- Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J. Dryden. Jr. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[=oo]; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See Sauce.] [Written also souce, sowce, and sowse.]
- 1. Pickle made with salt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. [1913 Webster]
- And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, v. t. To pounce upon. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, n. The act of sousing, or swooping. [1913 Webster]
- As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, n. A drunkard. [slang] [PJC]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, adv. With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Souse'
From: GCIDE
- Souse \Souse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soused; p. pr. & vb. n. Sousing.] [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See Souse pickle.]
- 1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. "A soused gurnet." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. [1913 Webster]
- They soused me over head and ears in water. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. [1913 Webster]
- Although I be well soused in this shower. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'souse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baptism,
- baptize,
- bathe,
- bender,
- booze,
- booze up,
- boozehound,
- boozify,
- bottle sucker,
- brannigan,
- brew,
- brewing,
- bum,
- burial,
- bury,
- bust,
- chug,
- chug-a-lug,
- crock,
- deluge,
- dip,
- dipping,
- douche,
- douse,
- dousing,
- drench,
- drenching,
- drouk,
- drown,
- drunk,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunk,
- dunking,
- elbow bender,
- engulf,
- engulfment,
- flush,
- fuddle,
- ginhound,
- hooch hound,
- imbrue,
- imbruement,
- imbue,
- imbuement,
- immerge,
- immergence,
- immerse,
- immersion,
- impregnate,
- impregnation,
- infiltrate,
- infiltration,
- infuse,
- infusion,
- inject,
- injection,
- inundate,
- inundation,
- jag,
- lave,
- leach,
- leaching,
- liquor,
- liquor up,
- lixiviate,
- lixiviation,
- lush,
- lusher,
- macerate,
- maceration,
- merge,
- overtake,
- overwhelm,
- percolate,
- percolation,
- permeate,
- permeation,
- pickle,
- plaster,
- plunge in water,
- pollute,
- pulping,
- raise the elbow,
- rinse,
- rum hound,
- rummy,
- saturate,
- saturation,
- seethe,
- seething,
- sink,
- sinking,
- soak,
- soakage,
- soaking,
- sodden,
- sop,
- sopping,
- sousing,
- sponge,
- steep,
- steeping,
- stew,
- stone,
- submerge,
- submergence,
- submerse,
- submersion,
- swack,
- swig,
- swill,
- swillbelly,
- swillbowl,
- swillpot,
- tank up,
- tear,
- tipsify,
- wash,
- waterlog,
- wet,
- whelm,
- wino