souse
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʊs
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).
Noun
souse (plural souses)
- Something kept or steeped in brine
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- 1848, Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, page 58:
- And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.
- (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
- (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
- 1848, Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, page 58:
- A pickle made with salt.
- The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- A person suffering from alcoholism.
Synonyms
- (person suffering from alcoholism): alcoholic, sot, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
See also
Verb
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- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- 1575, George Gascoigne, The introduction to the Psalme of De Profundis[1]:
- (Although I bee well soused in this showere,)
- 1730, Joseph Addison, The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq., volume the fourth, London: Jacob Tonson, →OCLC, page 154:
- As for my ſelf, they uſed to ſowſe me over head and ears in water when I was a boy
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (noise).
Noun
souse (plural souses)
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book II Canto XI:
- Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book II Canto XI:
- A heavy blow.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book IV Canto VIII
- With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book IV Canto VIII
Verb
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- (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto IV:
- Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.
- 1697, Virgil, John Dryden (tr.), The works of Virgil translated into English verse by John Dryden, Æneis, IX:
- Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto IV:
- (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):, Act V Scene II:
- [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old French sous (plural of sout).
Noun
souse
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