soused

[ soust ]

/ saʊst /

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adjective Slang.

drunk; intoxicated.

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Origin of soused

1540–50, in sense “pickled”; 1605–15 for current sense; souse¹ + -ed²

un·soused, adjective

So up and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very good meat, and so home and to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
Then she soused Button from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and chased him down the same way.
Billy Whiskers' Adventures|Frances Trego Montgomery
The slim gentleman poured the width of a finger of claret in his glass, soused it with water, and held it up.
Richard Carvel, Complete|Winston Churchill
The driver soused his head into the bucket of cold water which Firmstone had drawn from the faucet.
Blue Goose|Frank Lewis Nason

And then he lost hold and fell, and soused head over ears into the icy water.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson