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  • 11souse — [v] make very wet brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet; concept 256 Ant. dehydrate, dry …

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  • 12souse — ► VERB 1) soak in or drench with liquid. 2) (soused) (of gherkins, fish, etc.) pickled or marinaded: soused herring. 3) (soused) informal drunk. ► NOUN 1) liquid used for pickling. 2) …

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  • 13souse — souse1 [sous] n. [ME sows < OFr souz < OHG sulza, brine, akin to salz,SALT] 1. a pickled food, esp. the feet, ears, and head of a pig 2. liquid used for pickling; brine 3. the act of plunging into a liquid, esp. into brine for pickling ☆ 4 …

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  • 14souse — [saus] 1. in. to drink excessively; to go on a drinking bout; to get drunk. (From a word meaning “to soak or pickle.” See also soused.) □ They sat sousing quietly in the corner. □ Let us retire from the table and souse in the parlor. 2. n. a… …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 15Sousè — Moun ki ap souse, moun ki konnen kijan pou li souse yon bagay. Sousè San, Sansi. Yon lougawou ki ale nan kwen kay yon moun epi ki ap rale san yon moun vini nan boush li san li pa rantre andedan kay la …

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  • 16Souse — Sous Sous, Souse Souse (F. s[=oo]; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] Colman, the Elder. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 17souse — [14] To souse something is etymologically to steep it in ‘salt’. The word comes via Old French sous from Old Saxon sultia or Old High German sulza ‘brine’, descendants of the prehistoric Germanic base *salt , *sult (from which English gets salt) …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 18souse — UK [saʊs] / US verb [transitive] Word forms souse : present tense I/you/we/they souse he/she/it souses present participle sousing past tense soused past participle soused to pour water over someone or something until they are completely wet …

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  • 19souse — [14] To souse something is etymologically to steep it in ‘salt’. The word comes via Old French sous from Old Saxon sultia or Old High German sulza ‘brine’, descendants of the prehistoric Germanic base *salt , *sult (from which English gets salt) …

    Word origins

  • 20Souse — 1. intoxicate; 2. drink to intoxication; 3. drunkard (from souse steep in pickling liquid) …

    Dictionary of Australian slang