Soak vs Souse - What's the difference?
soak | souse |
(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:
Something kept or steeped in brine
# The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
#* (and other bibliographic details) Tusser
## (US, Appalachian) Pickled scrapple.
## (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
# A pickle made with salt.
# The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
A person suffering from the disease of alcoholism.
To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
* (and other bibliographic details) Addison
* (and other bibliographic details) Gascoigne
*1913 , , (Sons and Lovers) ,
*:As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.
The act of sousing, or swooping.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Spenser)
A heavy blow.
* 1596 , Spencer, Fairie Queene
to strike, beat
to fall heavily
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
* (and other bibliographic details) J. Dryden. Jr.
to pounce upon
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
(label) sou (the French coin)
(label) A small amount
As verbs the difference between soak and souse
is that soak is (label) to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it while souse is to immerse in liquid; to steep or drench or souse can be to strike, beat.As nouns the difference between soak and souse
is that soak is an immersion in water etc while souse is something kept or steeped in brine or souse can be the act of sousing, or swooping or souse can be (label) sou (the french coin).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 verbssouse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse .
See also
* (food) brawn, budin, haggis, head cheese, pudding, sausage, scrappleVerb
(sous)- They soused me over head and ears in water.
- although I be well soused in this shower
Derived terms
* sousedEtymology 2
Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (noise).Noun
(en noun)- As a falcon fair / That once hath failed or her souse full near.
- His murdrous mace he vp did reare, That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare.
Verb
(sous)- Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.
- Jove's bird will souse upon the tim'rous hare.
- [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.