souse
souse is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A corrupt form of Sou. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A corrupt form of Sou.
- noun. Pickle made with salt.
- noun. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- noun. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- noun. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- transitive verb. To steep in pickle; to pickle.
- transitive verb. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
- transitive verb. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
- transitive verb. To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
- transitive verb. To pounce upon.
- noun. The act of sousing, or swooping.
- adverb. With a sudden swoop; violently.
- noun. the act of making something completely wet
"he gave it a good drenching"
- noun. pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
- noun. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- verb. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
"souse water on his hot face"
- verb. cook in a marinade
"souse herring"
- verb. become drunk or drink excessively
- 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"
Synonyms
drenching, soaking, sousing, alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, inebriate, dip, dunk, plunge
Common word forms
soused, souser, souses, sousing
Words from these letters
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