sudn.
Singular of suds n.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
† sudv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To befoul, soil.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)]
sulec897
smitOE
soil1297
besoila1300
bysulpc1400
smudgec1430
dauba1450
smirch1495
smotter1513
suddle1513
smada1525
coinquinatea1529
puddle1535
moil1575
smut1587
sud1593
sully1601
coninquinate1609
smirch1615
smutcha1616
beslurry1627
besullya1645
smoot1683
besmircha1700
be-smutch1832
guggle1866
dirten1906
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 80 Recouer your soules though you haue sudded your bodies.
2. intransitive. To foam. (See sudding adj.)
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)] > foam or froth
foamc950
spumec1400
creamc1440
ream1440
fry1590
mantle1595
froth1603
sud1603
freathe1786
sponge1790
yeast1880
1603 G. Fletcher Sorrowes Ioy 22 The streame, That sudding on the rocke, would closely seeme To imitate her whitenesse with his frothy creame.
3. passive. To be covered with drift sand left by a flood.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [verb (transitive)] > alluviate
atterrate1673
sud1787
warp1799
silt1830
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Sudded The meadows are sudded; i.e. covered with drift sand left by the floods. W.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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