suds

See also: sūds, Süds, SUDs, and SUDS

English

Etymology

From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud +‎ -s. Related to seethe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌdz/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ʌdz

Noun

suds pl (normally plural, singular sud)

1. (countable, uncountable) Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:

     Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.

2. (slang) Beer.

   We went out for some pizza and suds.

Usage notes

• Sometimes treated as uncountable ("too much suds") and sometimes as plural ("too many suds").

Derived terms

• oversuds
• soapsuds
• suds up

Translations

lather, foam

• Arabic: رَغْوَة‎ (raḡwa)
• Armenian: սապնափրփուր (hy) (sapnapʿrpʿur), օճառափրփուր (hy) (ōčaṙapʿrpʿur), փրփուր (hy) (pʿrpʿur)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bikol Central: subo (bcl)
• Bulgarian: сапунена пяна (sapunena pjana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泡沫 (zh) (pàomò), 沫 (zh) (mò)

• Czech: mýdlová pěna f, mydliny f pl
• Dutch: sop (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vaahto (fi)
• French: mousse de savon, eau savonneuse
• Georgian: საპნის ქაფი (saṗnis kapi)
• German: Seifenlauge (de), Schaum (de)
• Greek: σαπουνάδα (el) f (sapounáda)
• Hebrew: קֶצֶף סַבּוֹן‎
• Hindi: साबुन का झाग (sābun kā jhāg)
• Hungarian: szappanhab (hu)
• Irish: sobal m
• Italian: saponata f, schiuma (it) f
• Japanese: 泡 (ja) (awa)
• Korean: 비눗물 (ko) (binunmul)
• Latin: spūma f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөөс (mn) (xöös)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠭᠡᠰᠦ (mn) (kögesü)

• Ottoman Turkish: كوپوك‎ (köpük)
• Portuguese: espuma (pt) f
• Russian: мы́льная пе́на f (mýlʹnaja péna)
• Spanish: espuma (es) f
• Swedish: lödder (sv)
• Thai: ฟอง (th) (fɔɔng), ฟองฟอด (fong fôt)
• Turkish: köpük (tr)
• Yakut: мыыла күүгэнэ (mııla küügene)

Verb

suds (third-person singular simple present sudses, present participle sudsing, simple past and past participle sudsed)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds.

   We sudsed the car before washing it down until it gleamed like new.