Crossword clues for soused
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Souse \Souse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soused; p. pr. & vb. n. Sousing.] [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See Souse pickle.]
To steep in pickle; to pickle. ``A soused gurnet.''
--Shak.-
To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
They soused me over head and ears in water.
--Addison. -
To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
Although I be well soused in this shower.
--Gascoigne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"drunk," 1610s, from past participle of souse (v.), on notion of one "pickled" in liquor.
Wiktionary
(context slang English) inebriated, drunk. v
(en-past of: souse)
WordNet
adj. wet from being plunged into liquid; "a dunked doughnut"; "fell into the pool and came up soused" [syn: dunked]
very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet]
Wikipedia
Soused may refer to:
- An informal term for being under the influence of alcohol intoxication
- Soused (album), by Sunn O))) in collaboration with Scott Walker
Soused is a collaborative album between singer Scott Walker and experimental metal band Sunn O))). Announced in early 2014 by 4AD, the album was produced by Walker and Peter Walsh with the help of Mark Warman and released on 21 October 2014.
Usage examples of "soused".
Into the hot water the hogs are soused at intervals of twenty seconds, and the Scalder stands, watching the clock, and occasionally trying the temperature of the water with his finger, or the adherence of the hair on the creature first to be handled.
In which his worke he had sixe seruants prest,About the Andvile standing euermore,With huge great hammers, that did neuer restFrom heaping stroakes, which thereon soused sore:All sixe strong groomes, but one then other more:For by degrees they all were disagreed.
Being in a favourable position he was well soused with salt water by all the hands on that part of the deck, until, looking like a half-drowned rat, the miserable man was allowed to recover his feet.
My platter of hot hors d'oeuvres included a clam casino, an oyster Rockefeller, a fried shrimp, a soused shrimp and a stuffed mushroom cap.
They hadn’t come to see her sideman get soused and have evenings where he made the Pogues sound like brilliant musicians.
A soused reporter, going through his nightly routine of calling up the station houses for police blotter news, got the facts of the story but confuse the Nolan name with the name of the policeman on the case.
He could, almost, imagine himself outside the Snyder bedroom in Queens Village, getting steadily more soused as he waited for Albert to go to sleep so that then he could sneak in there and brain him with the sash weight in his sweaty hand.