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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

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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