soused
adjective
[ saʊst ]
• (of food, especially fish) preserved in pickle or a marinade.
• "soused herring"
Similar:
drench,
soak,
steep,
douse,
saturate,
plunge,
immerse,
dip,
submerge,
sink,
dunk,
pickled,
marinated,
soaked,
steeped,
• drunk.
• "I was soused to the eyeballs"
Similar:
drunk,
drunken,
inebriated,
intoxicated,
befuddled,
incapable,
tipsy,
the worse for drink,
under the influence,
maudlin,
blind drunk,
dead drunk,
rolling drunk,
roaring drunk,
(as) drunk as a lord,
(as) drunk as a skunk,
sottish,
tippling,
toping,
gin-soaked,
tight,
merry,
the worse for wear,
woozy,
pie-eyed,
two/three sheets to the wind,
under the table,
plastered,
smashed,
wrecked,
sloshed,
well oiled,
sozzled,
blotto,
blitzed,
canned,
stewed,
pickled,
tanked (up),
soaked,
bombed,
hammered,
blasted,
off one's face,
out of/off one's head,
out of one's skull,
wasted,
wired,
in one's cups,
reeling,
cock-eyed,
zonked,
guttered,
fuddled,
stinko,
ratted,
legless,
steaming,
bevvied,
paralytic,
Brahms and Liszt,
half cut,
out of it,
having had a skinful,
bladdered,
trolleyed,
well away,
squiffy,
tiddly,
out of one's box,
having had one over the eight,
cut,
steamed,
mullered,
slaughtered,
lashed,
fou,
full,
shickered,
shot,
turnt,
grogged up,
as full as a goog,
inked,
munted,
lekker,
tired and emotional,
stoned,
lit up,
as tight as a tick,
half seas over,
pixilated,
sotted,
besotted,
foxed,
screwed,
crapulent,
crapulous,
inebriate,
bibulous,
souse
verb
• soak in or drench with liquid.
• "the chips were well soused with vinegar"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun denoting pickled meat): from Old French sous ‘pickle’, of Germanic origin; related to salt.
