souse

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

mojar

escabeche

remojar

inzuppare

salmoura

mullar

immerger

eintauchen

bagnare

🛀

beone

saus

tremper

empapar

tuffare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/saʊs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: souse

Cognate with Old Saxon: sultia

Cognate with Old High German: 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”).