soused
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of soused
1540–50, in sense “pickled”; 1605–15 for current sense; souse 1 + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Her main dish was smoked rainbow trout, citrus cured rillette, fried egg, chive mash, soused vegetables and herb butter sauce.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
What will this year’s Cannes jurors think of Östlund’s mash-up of Buñuelian chaos and “Gilligan’s Island,” complete with Woody Harrelson as increasingly soused skipper?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2022
Where they diverge has to do the rough grain Walter assigns to Malory, a quality the stubbornly refined but equally soused Lucille rarely demonstrates.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021
The acting is made of cardboard; but the legendary freak-out queen Veronica Cartwright is playing the movie’s soused matriarch — she’s cardboard origami.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2020
‘Wake up and go down yourself. Call the cop and let him get soused on the chain gang with cornbread and peas. Go to it, Misses Brannon.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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