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Definition of souse in English: souseverb saʊssaʊs with object Soak in or drench with liquid. the chips were well soused with vinegar Example sentencesExamples - Shredded carrots are soused in soy sauce and mixed with sesame seeds, coriander and arame, a Japanese algae seaweed product.
- Choppy waves soused the seaweed which clung to the rocks.
- My savarin with rum and muscatel tasted like a stale doughnut soused in wine.
Synonyms drench, soak, steep, douse, saturate, plunge, immerse, dip, submerge, sink, dunk
noun saʊssaʊs 1mass noun Liquid used for pickling. he liked to make salt-fish souse - 1.1North American, West Indian Food, especially a pig's head, in pickle.
Example sentencesExamples - Other popular dishes are dumpling and pig-tail or cow-heel soup, souse, and chicken stew.
- Special occasions often call for pudding and souse, the first a spicy mashed sweet potato encased in pigs belly, and boiled pig's head served with a ‘pickle’ of onions, hot and sweet peppers, cucumbers, and lime.
- Another popular Barbadian dish is pudding and souse, traditionally a special Saturday meal.
- She includes many Caribbean specialities, like souse, and ackee and saltfish, and the glowing photography makes even something as plain as yam in butter sauce look like a long-awaited feast.
- I ate pigfoot souse, which I hadn't in a couple years.
2informal A drunkard. Example sentencesExamples - Of what value dignity, if you're already a drunken souse and there's nothing else to lose?
- You think I've become an old souse, don't you?
- Crew cut lads fresh from college would put aside their childish experimentations with wine and beer, join a respectable company, and start the business of learning how to belt hard liquor from the seasoned souses at work.
- The guy at the bar was a souse, a wino.
- And the next night you have to be at an endless reception dinner, listening to too many toasts by too many souses.
- His most famous souse, Sir John Falstaff, is a bloated, devious, clown.
Synonyms drinker, serious drinker, hard drinker, problem drinker, alcoholic - 2.1dated A period of heavy drinking.
Origin Late Middle English (as a noun denoting pickled meat): from Old French sous 'pickle', of Germanic origin; related to salt. Rhymes douse, dowse, Gauss, grouse, house, Klaus, louse, Manaus, mouse, nous, Rouse, spouse, Strauss Definition of souse in US English: souseverbsaʊssous [with object]Soak in or drench with liquid. souse the quilts in warm suds until thoroughly clean Example sentencesExamples - Shredded carrots are soused in soy sauce and mixed with sesame seeds, coriander and arame, a Japanese algae seaweed product.
- My savarin with rum and muscatel tasted like a stale doughnut soused in wine.
- Choppy waves soused the seaweed which clung to the rocks.
Synonyms drench, soak, steep, douse, saturate, plunge, immerse, dip, submerge, sink, dunk
nounsaʊssous 1Liquid, typically salted, used for pickling. - 1.1North American, West Indian Pickled food, especially a pig's head.
Example sentencesExamples - She includes many Caribbean specialities, like souse, and ackee and saltfish, and the glowing photography makes even something as plain as yam in butter sauce look like a long-awaited feast.
- Another popular Barbadian dish is pudding and souse, traditionally a special Saturday meal.
- I ate pigfoot souse, which I hadn't in a couple years.
- Special occasions often call for pudding and souse, the first a spicy mashed sweet potato encased in pigs belly, and boiled pig's head served with a ‘pickle’ of onions, hot and sweet peppers, cucumbers, and lime.
- Other popular dishes are dumpling and pig-tail or cow-heel soup, souse, and chicken stew.
2informal A drunkard. Example sentencesExamples - Of what value dignity, if you're already a drunken souse and there's nothing else to lose?
- And the next night you have to be at an endless reception dinner, listening to too many toasts by too many souses.
- His most famous souse, Sir John Falstaff, is a bloated, devious, clown.
- You think I've become an old souse, don't you?
- The guy at the bar was a souse, a wino.
- Crew cut lads fresh from college would put aside their childish experimentations with wine and beer, join a respectable company, and start the business of learning how to belt hard liquor from the seasoned souses at work.
Synonyms drinker, serious drinker, hard drinker, problem drinker, alcoholic - 2.1dated A drinking bout.
Origin Late Middle English (as a noun denoting pickled meat): from Old French sous ‘pickle’, of Germanic origin; related to salt. |