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Definition: Suds |
SudsNoun1. The froth produced by soaps or detergents. 2. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops. Verb1. Wash in suds. 2. Make froth, become bubbly; "The river foamed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suds" was first used: 1548. (references) |
Note: Suds \Suds\, plural noun. [Akin to sodden, seethe. See Seethe.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Suds (Mrs.). A facetious name for a washwoman or laundress. Of course, the allusion is to soap-suds. To be in the suds - in ill-temper. According to the song, "Neer a bit of comfort is upon a washing day," all are put out of gear, and therefore out of temper. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SUDS. In the suds; in trouble, in a disagreeable situation, or involved in some difficulty. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SUDS | English | Silhouetting Underwater Detecting System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SudsSynonyms: beer (n), lather (n), soapsuds (n), foam (v), froth (v), spume (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Noun: bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift. |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
Difficulty | Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Suds |
| English words defined with "suds": soap bubble, soap flakes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "suds": carpet cleaner, CLOTH-MERCERIZER OPERATOR ♦ KNITTER, WIRE MESH, knitting-machine operator ♦ lusterer ♦ mercerizer, mercerizer-machine operator, mercerizing-range controller ♦ RUG CLEANER, HAND, rug renovator, rug scrubber, rug shampooer, rug washer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "suds": sutler. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've got suds god damn it, bye god have I got suds. (Affliction; writing credit: Paul Schrader) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Captain Suds (1925) The Soap Suds Star (1915) Soot Versus Suds (1901) Pink Suds (1979) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The patriotick barber of New York, or the Captain in the suds. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. |
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| "Suds" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Suds" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "suds": In the suds ♦ soap suds. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
soap suds daily | 94 | duds n suds | 3 |
suds | 59 | suds pump | 3 |
soap suds | 51 | suds toyota | 3 |
dog n suds | 33 | n soap suds | 3 |
sea suds | 11 | lots suds | 3 |
n sea suds | 10 | soap spoiler suds | 3 |
beer recipe suds | 10 | bubble suds | 3 |
dog suds | 9 | scent suds | 3 |
rick suds | 7 | preview soap suds | 2 |
enema soap suds | 7 | car suds wash | 2 |
duds suds | 4 | dog n restaurant suds | 2 |
fogg n suds | 4 | sierra suds | 2 |
sound suds | 4 | beer dog n root suds | 2 |
butterfly suds | 4 | spud suds wings | 2 |
software suds | 4 | opera soap suds | 2 |
suds super | 3 | reuse suds | 2 |
musical suds | 3 | suds ultimate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "suds"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkumë sapuni (lather, soapsuds), ujë me sapun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رغوة الصابون (lather, soapsuds), رغاوى الصابون, بيرة (beer, porter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сапунена вода, сапунена пяна (lather, soapsuds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 肥皂水 (Sud), 沫 (foam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mýdlový roztok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کف صابون (Lather), اب صابون . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | saippuavesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mousse de savon, eau savonneuse, bière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seifenlauge (soapsuds), schaum (foam, froth, lather, scum, spume, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαπωνόνερο, σαπουνάδεσ (soap suds), σαπουνάδα (lather, soap suds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קצף סבון (lather, soapsuds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szappanhab (lather, soap suds, soapsuds), szappanos víz (soapsuds), szappanlé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | busa (blow, foam, gasp, lather, scum), buih (foam, froth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | schiuma (foam, froth, lather, scum, spume), saponata (soapy water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sobbyl, kesh (fizz, foam, froth, lather, scum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udssay espuma de sabão (lather, soapsuds), água de sabão (soapsuds). (various references) spumã (cream, foam, froth, head, lather, scum, spume). (various references) мыльная вода, пена мыльная (lather). (various references) sapunica (lather, soapsuds), pena (foam, lather, mousse, ream, scum, skim, spume). (various references) jabonaduras (lather, soapsuds), espuma de jabón (lather, soapsuds), cerveza (ale, beer, malt liquor, pint, tap). (various references) såplödder. (various references) น้ำสบู่ที่มีฟอง. (various references) sabun köpüğü (lather, soap buble), köpüklü bira, köpük (feather, foam, froth, head, lather, mousse, scum, skimmings, spume, yeast), bira (ale, beer, hop). (various references) мильна піна (lather, soapsuds). (various references) trochion (foam, lather), golchion (slops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | sudse. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "suds": sudsed, sudser, sudsers, sudses, sudsier, sudsiest, sudsing, sudsless, sudsy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "suds": oversuds, soapsuds. (additional references) | |
Words containing "suds": oversudsed, oversudses, oversudsing. (additional references) | |
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"Suds" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esdu, euds, iucds, ouds, Pseuds, Quds, qudsi, sadc, sads, sauds, sd, sdes, sdu, seuds, sfdes, sids, smd, stds, suades, sud, suda, sudda, sude, sudo, sudz, suqs, suss, suts, suud, suus, suys, uds, Udsp, usd, zudd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suds" (pronounced su"dz) |
| 3 | -u" d z | bloods, buds, duds, floods, muds, Scuds, spuds, studs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: dusks, dusts, scuds, spuds, studs, sudds, sudsy, surds. | |
+2 letters: bussed, cussed, discus, disuse, douses, druses, dulses, duress, fussed, issued, mussed, pseuds, sadhus, sedums, sounds, soused, squads, squids, sudors, sudsed, sudser, sudses, suedes, sussed. | |
+3 letters: absurds, adjusts, assumed, assured, bestuds, budless, cuspids, defuses, degauss, degusts, disbuds, discuss, diseuse, disgust, disused, disuses, dousers, duchess, dueness, dulness, dunness, duskish, dusters, dustups, escudos, guessed, gussied, judases, medusas, misused, moussed, muscids, musjids, niduses, nudisms, nudists, osmunds, pseudos, saddhus, sardius, sawdust, seduces, sendups, shadufs, shrouds, shushed, siddurs, sludges, slushed, smudges, sodiums, solidus, soudans, spoused, stounds, strouds, studies, studios, stupids, subdebs, subdues, subside, subsidy, suddens, sudsers, sudsier, sudsing, suldans, sulfids, sundaes, sunders, sundews, sundogs, suspend, swounds, tissued, trussed, tussled, undress, upsends, upsides. | |
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