souse

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Let your souse get quite cold after boiling, before you put it in the liquor, and be sure to use pale coloured vinegar, or the souse will be dark.

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  1. transitive verb To plunge into a liquid.
  2. transitive verb To make soaking wet; drench.
  3. transitive verb To steep in a mixture, as in pickling.
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  • ;E ;s still got a few steps to take to Leander ;s souse, you see. —  The Shipping News
  • For breakfast in Dunmore Town, join the locals for a $9 omelet or the Bahamian souse, a hearty and sour soup made with chicken, sheep's tongue or other meats, at Avery's Restaurant and Grill (Colebrook Street; 242-333-3126). —  NYT > Travel
  • He smelt warmth, rest, and there was the promise in his mind of a good "souse." —  The Heart of Unaga
  • Order pasties and souse-fish and a butt of malmsey; see the great hall is properly decored for my Lord Bishop of Carisbury, who will take his ambigue and bait his steeds at this castle Miss Joliffe stared; she saw a bottle and an empty tumbler on the table, and smelt a strong smell of whisky; and the mirth faded from Mr Sharnall's face as he read her thoughts No, wrong," he said--"wrong this once; I am as sober as a judge, but excited. —  The Nebuly Coat
  • Ladies not a mile from this souse--could mention names but won't--pay pounds and pounds for gloves and dats and not talf-a-crown to spare for crying need, but said to myself all day, Mrs Rendell will help! —  A Houseful of Girls
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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English sousen, probably from Old French *souser, to pickle, from souz, sous, pickled meat, of Germanic origin; see sal- in Indo-European roots.
  2. From Middle English souse, swooping motion, alteration of sours, source, a rising; see source.

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  1. Early modern English also souce, sowce, sowse; from Middle English souse, sowse, variant of sauce: see sauce, n.
  2. Early modern English also souce; from Middle English sowcen, sowsen; a variant of sauce, v. Cf. souse, n.
  3. Early modern English also souce, sowce, souze; a variant (apparently by confusion with souse, v.) of source, v. Cf. souse, n.
  4. Early modern English also sowce, sowse; from souse, v., but in def. 1 perhaps in part a variant of source, n. (in def. 1): see source.
  5. An elliptical use of souse, v. Cf. soss, adv.
  6. Also source; said to be from French sous, under (the r of source being then intrusive): see sub-.
 

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