sowse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊs/
• Rhymes: -aʊs
• Homophone: souse

Noun

sowse (plural sowses)

1. Obsolete form of souse.

Verb

sowse (third-person singular simple present sowses, present participle sowsing, simple past and past participle sowsed)

1. Obsolete spelling of souse
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

     For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The Dirae sowse from heaven with swift descent.

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• swoes