souse

1. 1.

   a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

   Synonymsalcoholicalkydipsomaniacboozerlushsoaker

   Broaderdrunkard
2. 2.

   pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled

   Broadersausage
3. 3.

   the act of making something completely wet

   “he gave it a good drenching”

   Synonymsdrenchingsoakingsousing

   Broaderwetting

Other forms of souse

plural

souses·

past tense

soused·

present participle

sousing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about souse

What does souse mean?

souse means "cover with liquid; pour liquid onto". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in souse?

souse has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for souse?

Close synonyms include drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is souse a common word?

souse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.