Definition of Soused

1. Adjective. Very drunk.


Definition of Soused

1. Verb. (past of souse). ¹

2. Adjective. (slang) inebriated, drunk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Soused

1. souse [v] - See also: souse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soused

soursop
soursop tree
soursops
sourt
sourwood
sourwoods
sous
sous-chef
sous-chefs
sous-vide
sousaphone
sousaphones
sousaphonist
sousaphonists
soused (current term)
souses
sousing
sousings
souslik
sousliks
sousveillance
sout
soutache
soutaches
soutage
soutane
soutanes
soutar
soutars

Literary usage of Soused

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER XIX How Sir Tristram soused Dagonet in a well, ... Right so Sir Tristram came unto them, and first he soused Sir Dagonet in that well, and after his ..."

2. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Parboil two pair of ears, or take some that have been soused: make a forcemeat of an anchovy, ... Pigs' Feet and Ears soused, Clean carefully, ..."

3. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"... under his rib like a glutton, 24 soused him into the boiler, and finished his broth With the Ghost of the grim Scrag of Mutton. О ! la, fal de ral, &c. ..."

4. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"(TabIe of Subst). gurnet—A soused, A pickled gurnet,—a not uncommon term of reproach (perhaps because it was reckoned a coarse and vulgar sort of food), ..."

5. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"I wish you were all there to-day, for we are again soused into Florentine weather, and have scarce had a teacup of rain, which makes us not look so green as ..."

6. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1840)
"Boil the tripe, but not quite tender ; then put it into »alt and water, which must be changed every day till it is Or fricassee it with white sauce. soused ..."

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