Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adv
Suddenly, without warning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, not-comparable
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noun
Something kept or steeped in brine.
The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
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noun
Something kept or steeped in brine.
The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
Pickled scrapple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Appalachia, US
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noun
Something kept or steeped in brine.
The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Caribbean
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noun
Something kept or steeped in brine.
A pickle made with salt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Something kept or steeped in brine.
The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
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noun
The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
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noun
A drunkard.
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noun
The act of sousing, or swooping.
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noun
A heavy blow.
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noun
A sou (the French coin).
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A small amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Pronunciation spelling of source.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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verb
To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To steep in brine; to pickle.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To strike, beat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
To fall heavily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive
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verb
To pounce upon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
the act of making something completely wet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing
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Broader terms: wetting
noun
pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sausage
noun
a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker
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Broader terms: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino
verb
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop
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Broader terms: wet
Narrower terms: brine, bedraggle, draggle, bate, ret, sluice, flush
verb
cook in a marinade
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cook
verb
become drunk or drink excessively
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: soak, inebriate, hit it up
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Broader terms: drink, booze, fuddle
verb
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dunk, dip, plunge, douse
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Broader terms: immerse, plunge
Narrower terms: sop, dip, douse, duck, dabble
History
Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).
From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).
Borrowed from French, from Old French sous (plural of sout), from Latin solidus. Compare solidus (“gold coin of the late Roman empire”).
First appeared online during the Bush administration.
