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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suds
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
soap suds (=a lot of soap bubbles)
▪ She paused and looked at him, her arms covered in soap suds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it takes a mighty age to tell its tale and dives head-first into the soap suds along the way.
▪ Carefully, delicately he rinsed the suds from my body, and taking a bath sheet wrapped me in it.
▪ Crawford scooped up the suds in his hands and put them back in the machine - through the open door.
▪ One reveller was already pouring bubble bath into a huge hot tub so he and his partner could frolic in the suds.
▪ Remove stubborn marks by scrubbing lightly with a nail brush, using warm water and soap suds.
▪ She turned off the water and from the suds pulled out a broken plate.
▪ The strange tinge of male fingers in the suds.
▪ This is a concept new to the auto industry but old hat to purveyors of soap, suds and soup.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suds

Suds \Suds\, n. pl. [Akin to sodden, seethe. See Seethe.] Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

In the suds, in turmoil or difficulty. [Colloq.]
--Beau. & Fl.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suds

1540s, "dregs, leavings, muck," especially in East Anglia, "ooze left by flood" (according to OED this may be the original sense), perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch sudse "marsh, bog," or related words in Frisian and Low German, cognate with Old English soden "boiled," from Proto-Germanic *suth-, from PIE *seut- "to seethe, boil" (see seethe). Meaning "soapy water" dates from 1580s; slang meaning "beer" first attested 1904. Related: Sudsy.

Wiktionary
suds

n. lather, foam

WordNet
suds
  1. n. the froth produced by soaps or detergents [syn: soapsuds, lather]

  2. a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces)

  3. v. wash in suds

  4. make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed" [syn: froth, spume]

Wikipedia
Suds

Suds or SUDS may refer to :

  • Foam
  • Suds (film), a 1920 silent film produced by and starring Mary Pickford
  • Subjective units of distress scale, in psychology
  • Sudden unexpected death syndrome, the sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults during sleep
  • Sydney University Dramatic Society
  • Sustainable urban drainage systems
  • "Suds", an episode of season 1 of the animated television SpongeBob SquarePants
Suds (film)

Suds is a 1920 silent film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Mary Pickford. The film is based on the 1904 English stage play 'Op o' Me Thumb, a one-act work first produced in London and presented the following year in New York with Maude Adams, a curtain raiser for her appearance in Peter Pan.

Usage examples of "suds".

Yes, smiles break out all around as we cast daddies, brothers, husbands into near-respectable village idiots in the stories we spin over bowls of homegrown, freshly snapped peas, clotheslines draped with bleach-scented, bloodstained damp sheets, sinks filled with suds and supper-crusted dishes.

And the ornate tin bath of the Archchancellor of Unseen University was lifted neatly off the floor, sizzled across his study and then flew off the balcony and on to the lawn in the octangle several storeys below, without spilling more than a cupful of suds.

He wiped his face and washed his hands with soapberry, the flesh of the fruit sliced into a dish of water and making suds.

Tame anarchists, a dreary crew, Squib Socialists too damp to sosh, Fake Hobohemians steeped in suds, Glib females in Artistic Duds With Captive Husbands cowed and gauche.

Knuckles was seated in a booth this time, sipping suds with the owner and a tinhorn gambler called Ace, up from Texas while the law calmed down about a noisy poker game down there.

He shook some of the soap under the sputtering pump, swirled the cold water to make suds.

Suds and water were gathered to one side of the corridor, and Doc contrived to stumble away from Panner and slip on the soapy water.

She was squeezing a wad of steel wool so tightly that the di rty suds streaked down one arm and wet the waist of her shirt and the bony hip of her denim work: jeans.

She swaddled his shoulders, applied the suds, sharpened the razor and shaved him with deft strokes, all in five minutes.

The strange chunks of fluff were roughly six feet in diameter, and at first Baz had thought that they must be a concentration of soap or detergent suds that had somehow escaped the confines of a laundry.

YOUNG REYNARD I Gracefullest leaper, the dappled fox-cub Curves over brambles with berries and buds, Light as a bubble that flies from the tub, Whisked by the laundry-wife out of her suds.

Further still was Suds Row, where the post laundresses lived and worked.

She had been killing Japanese beetles by tapping them, engorged and sluggish, from her rosebushes into an agitated froth in which they were trapped and then drowned with each fresh sudsing shake of her old mayonnaise jar.

He unbuttoned his pants, he stepped out of his shoes, he yanked off his socks, and he was standing there naked, sponge-bathing his body, sudsing up and then splashing himself clean.

A brisk sudsing revived him somewhat, as did several submersions to rinse the sweat and travel grime out of his hair.