Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - souse
Souse
souse
v. & n. --v. 1 tr. put (gherkins, fish, etc.) in pickle. 2 tr. & intr. plunge into liquid. 3 tr. (as soused adj.) colloq. drunk. 4 tr. (usu. foll. by in) soak (a thing) in liquid. 5 tr. (usu. foll. by over) throw (liquid) over a thing. --n. 1 a pickle made with salt. b US food, esp. a pig's head etc., in pickle. 2 a dip, plunge, or drenching in water. 3 colloq. a a drinking-bout. b a drunkard. Etymology: ME f. OF sous, souz pickle f. OS sultia, OHG sulza brine f. Gmc: cf. SALT
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I. verb (~d; sousing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French suz, souce pickling juice, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sulza brine, Old English sealt salt Date: 14th century transitive verb pickle, 2. to plunge in liquid ; immerse, drench, saturate, to make drunk ; inebriate, intransitive verb to become immersed or drenched, II. noun Date: 14th century something pickled, an act of sousing ; wetting, 3. a habitual drunkard, a drinking spree ; binge, III. verb (~d; sousing) see: source Date: 1567 intransitive verb to swoop down ; plunge, transitive verb to swoop down on ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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