suds
[suhdz]
- soapy water.
- foam; lather.
- Slang. beer.
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- to wash with soap or detergent (often followed by out): to suds out a pair of socks.
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Origin of suds
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Examples from the Web for suds
Contemporary Examples
With luck, once the matches begin, the tensions will subside with the suds on a cold Budweiser.
Historical Examples
Not until she was elbow deep in suds did she recall her dreams about the octopus.
Weak on Square RootsRussell Burton
Azuba wiped the suds from her wet hand and arm upon her apron.
Cap'n Dan's DaughterJoseph C. Lincoln
He splashed and built up a mountain of suds, then wallowed in them.
A Yankee Flier Over BerlinAl Avery
Do not put blueing into suds, as it makes specks in the flannel.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
Wet white clothes in suds, and lay them on the grass, in the sun.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
suds
- the bubbles on the surface of water in which soap, detergents, etc, have been dissolved; lather
- soapy water
- slang, mainly US and Canadian beer or the bubbles floating on it
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Word Origin
C16: probably from Middle Dutch sudse marsh; related to Middle Low German sudde swamp; see seethe
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Word Origin and History for suds
n.
1540s, "dregs, leavings, muck," especially in East Anglia, "ooze left by flood" (this may be the original sense), perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch sudse "marsh, bog," cognate with Old English soden, past participle of seoþan (see seethe). Meaning "soapy water" dates from 1580s; slang meaning "beer" first attested 1904.
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