soused

[ soust ]

adjective

, Slang.

1. drunk; intoxicated.

Other Words From

• un·soused adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of soused¹

1540–50, in sense “pickled”; 1605–15 for current sense; souse ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

So up and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very good meat, and so home and to bed.

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Then she soused Button from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and chased him down the same way.

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The slim gentleman poured the width of a finger of claret in his glass, soused it with water, and held it up.

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The driver soused his head into the bucket of cold water which Firmstone had drawn from the faucet.

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And then he lost hold and fell, and soused head over ears into the icy water.

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