Souse vs X - What's the difference?
souse | x |
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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun 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).As a verb souse
is to immerse in liquid; to steep or drench or souse can be to strike, beat.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.souse
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.