Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SOUSE
SOUSE
Definitions of SOUSE
- Something kept or steeped in brine
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- A person suffering from alcoholism.
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- A heavy blow.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
- (now, dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now, dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
- (now, rare, dialectal) Suddenly, without warning.
- (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).
- (dated) A small amount.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SOUSE in a Sentence
- Man-a-live, I didn't have time to look at anything! When that raft hit those rapids at "Rooster Tail" we were going round and round, dived into "Souse Hole", slammed into rocks here and more rocks there.
- Other similar famous finds of Schafer's include ABC correspondent Joel Daly intoning, "The rumor that the President would veto the bill is reported to have come from a high White Horse souse", and veteran radio host Paul Harvey breaking into uncontrollable laughter at a story about a pet poodle.
- In retaliation, Eddie and Frankie instigate a huge fistfight in Joe's saloon, and during the fracas, Joe accidentally knocks out Finnegan (Charles Winninger), a lovable souse.
- '" The Film Daily, another widely read trade paper at the time, rates the short "Very Good" in its January 15, 1935 issue, noting that "the hilarity rises high when a souse, played with good effect by Arthur Housman.
- an acid Anglo-Indian scene with a chorus of sahibs declaiming that 'no matter how much we sozzle and souse, the sun never sets upon Government House', leads to a swinging mock-heroic number with the refrain 'But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun' that has a true Gilbertian flavour.
- He usually appeared in films directed by Del Lord such as Black Oxfords (1924), Yukon Jake (1924), Wall Street Blues (1924), Lizzies of the Field (1924), Galloping Bungalows (1924), From Rags to Britches (1925), and A Sea Dog's Tale (1926); by Harry Edwards such as The Lion and the Souse (1924), The Luck o' the Foolish (1924).
- "An Abreviation of divers most true and auncient Brutaine Cronicles, briefelie expressing the foundation of the most famous derayed Cittie Caer Souse or Dinas Southwen, most auncient in Brutaine, (Troy Newyth onlie excepted) and of some other famous Citties in Greate Brutaine" (May 1616).
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