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souse

[saus] / saʊs /


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Specialty products include beef hot dogs, cocktail sausages and hot or mild souse under the Magnolia brand.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2018

Baker's hero, Sampson Shillitoe, poet, souse, womanizer and pratfalling Prometheus, might be the worshipful nephew of Joyce Gary's artist-as-an-old-grog, Gulley Jimson.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trick is to veer away from souse holes?a vacuum on the downstream side of a boulder?because the swirl can pull the stern down and pop the bow up, propelling passengers into the drink.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the mysterious medium of Strine, magic comes out mare chick, a terrace house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ay, marry Sir! here you souse me with a Witness!

From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Colley Cibber

Her main dish was smoked rainbow trout, citrus cured rillette, fried egg, chive mash, soused vegetables and herb butter sauce.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023

Where they diverge has to do the rough grain Walter assigns to Malory, a quality the stubbornly refined but equally soused Lucille rarely demonstrates.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021

If you’re a “Saturday Night Live” fan, you immediately conjure up her exuberant performance as a soused Jeanine Pirro crooning “My Way” while she dunks herself in a tank of wine.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

Previously on music’s biggest night, most everything was played live, which is why bum notes were to the Grammys what soused speeches are to the Golden Globes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2021

‘Wake up and go down yourself. Call the cop and let him get soused on the chain gang with cornbread and peas. Go to it, Misses Brannon.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

First he took on a whiskered lion’s shape, a serpent then; a leopard; a great boar; then sousing water; then a tall green tree.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

That is, his habit of washing, or rather of sousing, everything he catches in water.

From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Lum Gillespie dropped the hose with which he was sousing an automobile in front of his garage and approached the group.

From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

Once, on the long tote-road from St. Leonards to the headwaters of the Restigouche, I saw Mooweesuk sitting on a rock by a trout brook diligently sousing something that he had just caught.

From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I have no hesitation in saying that her stern struck the ground, but no injury was done beyond sousing a few trunks and beds.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp




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