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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Soapy water.
  2. n. Foam; lather.
  3. n. Slang Beer.
  4. v. To wash in suds.
  5. v. To form or make suds.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Water impregnated with soap, forming a frothy mass; a lixivium of soap and water.
  2. The foam or spray churned up by a wounded whale; White water.
  3. In the suds, in turmoil or difficulty; in distress.
  4. A manufacturers' name for various waste soap-liquors incidentally produced in the industries of wool- and silk-scouring, -bleaching, -dyeing, etc. These were formerly allowed to run off into river-courses, but, in view of their polluting effect on the water, measures are now adopted to at least partially prevent this pollution and recover some material of value from the suds. See Yorkshire grease, sake, 2, and sudcake.

Wiktionary

  1. n. lather, foam

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. wash in suds
  2. v. make froth or foam and become bubbly
  3. n. the froth produced by soaps or detergents
  4. n. a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces)

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps from obsolete Dutch zudse, marsh, from Middle Dutch sudse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • whichbe Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale Jan 8, 2009

  • qroqqa When the customer comes and Violet is sudsing the thin gray hair . . .

    Then sudses with all her heart those three or four ounces of gray hair, soft and interesting as a baby's.
    —Toni Morrison, Jazz

    A morphological oddity: the noun 'suds' was originally plural, but you'd still expect the derived verb to be made from the base 'sud'. However, we say 'suds' as a verb too. Dec 19, 2008

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