besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
(adjective) very drunk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
soused (comparative more soused, superlative most soused)
(slang) inebriated, drunk.
Synonym: Thesaurus:drunk
soused
simple past tense and past participle of souse
• Douses, douses
Source: Wiktionary
Sous, Souse (F. soo; colloq. Eng. sous), n.
Definition: A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] Colman, the Elder.
Souse, n. Etym: [OF. sausse. See Sauce.] [Written also souce, sowce, and sowse.]
1. Pickle made with salt.
2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser.
3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.]
4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
Souse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soused; p. pr. & vb. n. Sousing.] Etym: [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See Souse pickle.]
1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. "A soused gurnet." Shak.
2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. They soused me over head and ears in water. Addison.
3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. Gascoigne.
Souse, v. i. Etym: [Probably fr. OF. sors, p.p. of sordre to rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in general, but also confused with Souse, v. t. See Source.]
Definition: To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. J. Dryden. Jr.
Souse, v. t.
Definition: To pounce upon. [R.] [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. Shak.
Souse, n.
Definition: The act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. Spenser.
Souse, adv.
Definition: With a sudden swoop; violently. Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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