Souse

Definition: Souse

Souse

Noun

1. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.

2. Pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled.

3. The act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching".

Verb

1. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face".

2. Immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup".

3. Become drunk; drink excessively.

4. Cook in a marinade; "souse herring".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "souse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Souse

Plunge

Verb: plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe;(water).

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Souse

The Lion and the Souse (1924)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

njomje (damp, maceration, moistening, saturation, soaking, treatment), njom (baste, dabble, dew, douse, Dunk, macerate, moisten, Rait, ret, saturate, soak, steepen, wet), lagie (drench), lag (dabble, damp, dampen, douse, drench, get wet, moisten, soak, wash, wet), fus në ujë (douse, shrink). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقيع الملح, ‏نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, steep, temper, wash, water), ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏تخليل (acetification, infiltration, pickling, preserving, pressing), ‏سكر (candy, conserve, fluster, get drunk, intoxicant, liquor, sloshed, sugar, sweeten, take to drink, tank up), ‏خلل (acetify, blemish, defect, deficiency, disorder, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, pickle, preserve, trouble), ‏المخلل, ‏السكير (alcoholic, bibber, drunkard, soak, sot, toper), ‏إنتشى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

саламура (brine, pickle), слагам в саламура (brine, pickle), връхлитам (hawk, overtake, rush, swoop), накисване (infusion, maceration, soak, soaking, steep, steeping), накисвам (drench, macerate, saturate, soak, sodden, steep), напивам (besot, fuddle, inebriate, intoxicate, liquor up, sew up), мариноване (pickling), мариновам (marinade, pickle), марината (marinade, pickle), пача (brawn, calves-foot, headcheese, jelly, trots, trotters), пияница (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, boozy, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, soak, soaker, sot, sponge, stew, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino), пикирам (dive, nose dive, swoop). (various references)

Czech

ponořit, naložit do nálevu, marinovat (marinate), marináda (marinade). (various references)

Farsi 

مست کردن یاشدن , مست (Drunk, Drunken, Groggy, Sot, Tipsy), حمله کردن (Assail, Impinge, Layon, Pop), غسل دادن , ترشی فروبری , ترشی (Acerbity, Acidity, Pickle), اهار (Starch), انداختن (Cast, Delete, Drop, Hitch, Hurl, Hurtle, Jaculate, Launch, Layaway, Omit, Put, Relegate, Shovel, Sling, Slough, Throw, Thrust, Toss), اب نمک (Brine, Saltwater), شستشو (Ablution, Bath, Bathe, Launder, Lavation, Lotion, Rinse, Wash, Washout), درترشی فروبردن , دراب غوطه ورشدن , بسختی افتادن , بطورکامل پوشاندن , باترشی مخلوطکردن . (various references)

French

soûler, saumure, vinaigrer, tremper dans, poivrot (soak), mariner, marinade, ivrogne, immerger, être en pointe de vin. (various references)

German

eintauchen (dip, dip into, dive, dive in, Dunk, immerse, immersion, plunge, sink, soak, steep, to dip (in, to souse). (various references)

Greek 

καταβρέχω (dribble, sprinkle), σαλαμούρα (brine, pickle), βουτώ εισ άλμην, εμβρέχω (imbrue, soak, sop, steep), τροφή διατηρουμένη εντόσ άλμησ, ταριχεύω (cure, embalm, mummify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרות (drench, immerse, saturate, soak, sop, steep), ל�"רוות (irrigate, saturate, sop, water), שרי�" (infusion, maceration, saturation, soaking, steeping), בשר כבוש. (various references)

Hungarian

páclé (pickle liquor), besóz (salt, salt away, to marinade, to marinate, to pickle, to souse), bepácol (to souse), bemártás (dip, dipping, flooding). (various references)

Italian

marinare (marinate, pickle, play truant, skip), inzuppare (dip, drench, Dunk, get soaked, saturate, soak, wet), immergere (dip, dive, give oneself up, immerse, immerse oneself, plunge, soak, steep, submerge). (various references)

Manx

piggyl (pickle), piggley, meshtey (inebriety), fliughey (drench, moisten, rainfall, slake, soak, wet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ousesay.(various references)

Portuguese

salmoura (brine, pickle), pés de porco, pôr em salmoura (marinade, pickle), pôr em escabeche, molhar (bathe, dampen, dip, irrigate, liquor, moisten, soak, steep, wash, water), mergulho (dash, dip, dipping, dive, diving, ducking, plash, plunge, scuba, scuba diving, sinking), mergulhar sobre a presa, mergulhar em água (douse, quench), escabeche (marinade, pickle), encharcar (flood, imbrue, soak), banho (bath, bathe, bathhouse, bathing, swim, wash, washing), atirar para a água. (various references)

Romanian

se nãpusti (fall, fling, rush, shoot, stampede), scufundare (ducking, sinking, submergence), saramurã (brine, pickle), sãra (brine, corn, cure, powder, powder with salt, salt), vârî în apã, uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), marinatã (marinade), marina (marinade). (various references)

Russian 

соленье, рассол (brine), окунаться (dip, douse, duck), окунать (dip, douse), мариновать пьяница. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

salamura, zamakati, usoljeno meso (salt junk), usoliti (preserve by salting, rouse, salt, salt away), rasol (brine), pijanica (alcoholic, bibber, boozer, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, malt-worm, rummy, sot, stiff, tippler, toper, winebibber), opiti (hang on, inebriate, make drunk, narcotize), namakanje. (various references)

Spanish

escabeche (brine, marinade, pickle, soused fish). (various references)

Swedish

saltlake (brine, pickle), blöta (soak, wet). (various references)

Turkish

suya daldırmak (immerse), suya bastırmak, sarhoşluk (being drunk, crapulence, drunk, drunkenness, ebriety, grogginess, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, jag), salamuraya bastırmak, salamura yapma, salamura (brine, corned, in salt, pickle, pickled, salted), tuzlu suya bastırmak, tuzlama, içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, wassail), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchanal, bacchant, bibber, bibulous, boozy, dipsomaniac, dissipated, drinker, drunk, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, soak, sot, sottish, sponge, toper, wino), ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрибок (bounce, bound, caper, curvet, dive, gambade, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, saltation, skip, spirt, spring, spurt), гепнути (plunk), миття (bath, scour, wash, washing), ляпас (buffet, clout, cuff), бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, cob, hit, lambaste, lay into, maul, sing out, thump, towel, trounce, whop). (various references)

Vietnamese 

s� xuống, tai (tab), đâm bổ xuống; lao nhanh xuống. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "souse": soused, souses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Souse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jouse, osus, sause, Sauze, scouse, scusi, seese, seuse, shoose, sisi, slouce, sluze, smoue, smouse, soase, soue, souet, souge, souie, souise, soule, soume, soupe, sourse, sousa, souser, souspe, sousse, Soussou, Souster, soute, souza, Souzay, spuse, squese, suase, suse, suspe, susse, suze, wouse. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: oses, sous, sues, uses.

-2 letters: ess, oes, ose, sos, sou, sue, use.

-3 letters: es, oe, os, so, us.

+1 letter: bouses, douses, houses, louses, mouses, mousse, nouses, onuses, opuses, ousels, rouses, scouse, serous, setous, soleus, soused, souses, spouse, touses.

+2 letters: arouses, blouses, boluses, bonuses, bosques, bourses, caseous, chouses, courses, dousers, ensouls, escudos, espouse, estrous, focuses, fucoses, gaseous, grouses, gustoes, hocuses, housels, housers, lotuses, momuses, mosques, mousers, moussed, mousses, nonuses, oestrus, oscules, osseous, ousters, outsees, outsets, poseurs, poussie, pseudos, rousers, scouses, serious, setouts, solutes, soubise, sources, sourest, souters, soyuzes, spoused, spouses, stoures, sucrose, suppose, tonuses, tousles, tussore.