souse

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Something kept or steeped in brine.
2. (Appalachia, US) Something kept or steeped in brine.
3. (Caribbean) Something kept or steeped in brine.
4. Something kept or steeped in brine.
5. Something kept or steeped in brine.
6. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
7. A drunkard.

Verb

1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Verb

1. (dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
2. (dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.

Adv

Suddenly, without warning.

Concepts

tremper

immerger

boisson

ivrogne

mariner

pisser

alcoolique

marinade

alcoolisé

Synonymes

dip

soak

douse

plunge

pickle

drench

dunk

immerse

sop

duck

🦆

dive

hit it up

dip in

inebriate

dipsomaniac

alky

alcoholic

lush

marinade

marinate

sousing

dowse

drenching

sink

soaker

soaking

soak up

diving

cure

boozer

countersink

dip to immerse

baptise

baptize

brine

christen

dabble

dig

get rid of

imbed

imbrue

imbue

juicer

mortice

mummify

preserve

puddle

recess

saturate

set

Traductions

mojar

escabeche

escabechar

saus

salmoura

zambullir

bagnare

🛀

eintauchen

inzuppare

tuffare

beone

empapar

mullar

remojar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/saʊs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: souse

Appartenant à Old Saxon: sultia

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: sulza

In summary

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).