释义 |
souse2 /sows/ transitive verb- To pickle
- To marinade and cook in spiced wine or vinegar
- To plunge, immerse or duck
- To drench or soak
- To make drunk
- To dash
- To fling down
- To smite
- To swoop down upon
intransitive verb- To be drenched or soaked
- To wash oneself thoroughly
- To get drunk
- To strike
- To impinge
- To fall heavily
- To swoop like a hawk
noun- Pickled meat, esp pig's feet or ears
- An ear (dialect or facetious)
- Pickling liquid
- A plunge in pickling or other liquid
- A ducking or drenching
- A wash
- A sluicing with water
- An act of getting drunk (informal)
- A drunkard (US)
- A heavy blow or fall
- A thump
- An impact
- A rising from the ground, taking wing (in the falconer's phrase at souse, at the souse, when the hawk gets a chance of striking)
- Hence, the downward swoop of a bird of prey
adverb- With a plunge
- With a heavy impact
- Plump
- Suddenly
—Also souce, sowce, sowse, sowsse in old writers ORIGIN: Partly OFr sous, souce, from OHGer sulza, from the root of salt1; partly imit (cf German Saus); partly source in its old sense of rising soused adjective - Pickled
- Very wet
- Drunk (informal)
sousˈing noun and adjective |