Soak vs Douce - What's the difference?
soak | douce |
(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
(label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
(label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
* {{quote-book, year=1927, author=
, chapter=4, title= To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
(label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
(label) To absorb; to drain.
An immersion in water etc.
* "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
(slang, British) A drunkard.
(Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
(obsolete) Sweet, nice, pleasant.
(dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 27:
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 145:
* 1996 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘The Story of a Recluse’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 271:
As a verb soak
is to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.As a noun soak
is an immersion in water etc.As an adjective douce is
sweet, nice, pleasant.soak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Their land shall be soaked with blood.
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
Noun
(en noun)- I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
Anagrams
* * * English ergative verbsdouce
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?
- If Fabre, for example, were elected to the Academy tomorrow, you would see his lust for social revolution turning overnight into the most douce and debonair conformity.
- So what strong lord of misrule can preside in this douce , commercially respectable, late 19th century city where even religious fanaticism reinforces un adventurous mediocrity?
