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UK
/sˈaʊs/
]
NOUN
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
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the act of making something completely wet
he gave it a good drenching - pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
VERB
-
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
dip the garment into the cleaning solution
dip the brush into the paint -
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
souse water on his hot face - become drunk or drink excessively
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cook in a marinade
souse herring
How To Use souse In A Sentence
- These obscene harpies, who deck themselves in I know not what divine attributes, but who in reality are foul and ravenous birds of prey, (both mothers and daughters,) flutter over our heads, and souse down upon our tables, and leave nothing unrent, unrifled, unravaged, or unpolluted with the slime of their filthy offal. Paras. 20-39
- You can't beat freshly cooked mackerel and my gran used to souse the excess to snack on until I showed up with another bagful. Seaside recipes: knickerbocker glory and cobb egg
- Sweat soused him all over.
- If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet. The first part of King Henry the Fourth
- We could have beans and fatback, or how'bout some of that souse like your mama used to fix. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
- Police said they kept the soused Englishman in custody as much for his own safety as that of the public.
- Yet I had ordered duck pie, alamode beef and soused hog's face as well, apart from the kickshaws.
- I swiftly become as soused as a herring.
- Without Kate there to rein him in, Wills was soused by midnight. William and Kate
- And hell, many people need booze to say hello to someone they like, so it's not surprising some of us need to be soused to let loose in bed.