souse
pronunciation
How to pronounce souse in British English:
UK [saʊs]
How to pronounce souse in American English:
US [saʊs]
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- Noun:
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
- the act of making something completely wet
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- Verb:
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- become drunk or drink excessively
- cook in a marinade
Word Origin
- souse
- souse: [14] To souse something is etymologically to steep it in ‘salt’. The word comes via Old French sous from Old Saxon sultia or Old High German sulza ‘brine’, descendants of the prehistoric Germanic base *salt-, *sult- (from which English gets salt). The notion of pickling something in brine soon broadened out to pickling in other liquids, such as vinegar, and by the 16th century souse was being used metaphorically for ‘drench’.=> salt
- souse (v.)
- late 14c., "to pickle, steep in vinegar," from Old French sous (adj.) "preserved in salt and vinegar," from Frankish *sultja or some other Germanic source (compare Old Saxon sultia "salt water," Old High German sulza "brine"), from Proto-Germanic *salt- (see salt (n.)). Related: Soused; sousing.
- souse (n.)
- something steeped in pickle, especially "pig parts preserved and pickled," mid-15c., earlier "liquid for pickling" (late 14c.), from souse (v.) or from its French source.
Example
- 1. They gave him a souse .
- 2. The boy went souse into the water .
- 3. The aquatic souse such as crab fish is machined .
- 4. Souse is believed to be highly acidic .
- 5. How do I get to your souse ?