souse
/saʊs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
noun
A drunkard.
Example Sentences
- "And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse."
- ""If there's any, giving in charge here I'll give you in charge for sneaking my beer, you slop-bellied old souse!" exclaimed Peter."
- "(Although I bee well soused in this showere,)"
- "For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]"
- "As for my ſelf, they uſed to ſowſe me over head and ears in water when I was a boy"
- "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."
Etymology
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”).