souse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   pork trimmings chopped, pickled, and jelled

   I love snacking on souse.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

   The souse sat on the park bench and drank from a paper bag.

3. 3
   verb

   to cover with liquid

   I soused the laundry in the bath.

4. 4
   verb

   to cook in a marinade

   I soused the lamb for two hours.

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

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