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Souse

verb
(past & past part. soused; pres. part. sousing)
1.
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.  Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop.
2.
Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate.  Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, plunge.  "Dip the brush into the paint"
3.
Become drunk or drink excessively.  Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak.
4.
Cook in a marinade.
noun
1.
A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.  Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker.
2.
Pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled.
3.
The act of making something completely wet.  Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing.






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"Souse" Quotes from Famous Books



... the door-man," Jimmy Knight cautioned for the twentieth time. "Make him think you've got a souse." ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

... cure bacon To make souse To roast a pig To barbecue shote To roast a fore-quarter of shote To make shote cutlets To corn shote Shote's head Leg of pork with pease pudding Stewed chine To toast a ham To stuff a ham Soused feet in ragout To make sausages To make black puddings ...
— The Virginia Housewife • Mary Randolph

... chiefly be glad, Things handsome to have, as they ought to be had. They both do provide against Christmas do come, To welcome their neighbor, good chere to have some. Good bread and good drinke, a good fier in the hall, Brawne, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withall. Biefe, Mutton, and Porke, shred pies of the best, Pig, veale, goose, and capon, and Turkey well drest. Cheese, apples, and nuttes, ioly Carols to here, As then, in the countrey, is compted good chere. What cost to good ...
— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton

... mermaid's song you may, As sure as sure can be, If you will but follow the sun all day, And souse with him into ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor

... driver reassuringly. "Just a souse. Wants to make a touch, madam. Streets are full of 'em these cold nights. He won't bone you while I'm here. Where to?" He was ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon


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