souse
noun
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L27928 on Wikidata ↗verb
- immerse in a liquid
- become drunk
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /saʊs/
adv
Etymology: Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).
- Suddenly, without warning.
“Mr Nash […] suddenly taking the gentleman by the collar of his coat, and waistband of his breeches, threw him souse over the parapet to the object of his love.”
noun
Etymology: First appeared online during the Bush administration.
- Pronunciation spelling of source.
verb
Etymology: Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).
- To strike, beat.
- To fall heavily.
“Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.”
“Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air”
- To pounce upon.
“[The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.”