Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A corrupt form of Sou.
- 2noun
Pickle made with salt.
- 3noun
Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- 4noun
The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- 5noun
The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- 6transitive verb
To steep in pickle; to pickle.
- 7transitive verb
To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
- 8transitive verb
To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
- 9transitive verb
To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
- 10transitive verb
To pounce upon.
- 11noun
The act of sousing, or swooping.
- 12adverb
With a sudden swoop; violently.
- 13noun
the act of making something completely wet
"he gave it a good drenching"
- 14noun
pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
- 15noun
a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- 16verb
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
"souse water on his hot face"
- 17verb
cook in a marinade
"souse herring"
- 18verb
become drunk or drink excessively
- 19verb
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"
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