Sousing

Word SOUSING
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Sousing"

What do we mean by sousing?

To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.

To steep in brine; to pickle.

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The word "sousing" in example sentences

Gus repeated, this time avowedly for the edification of another young fellow who was busily engaged in sousing his head in the water of the lake. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being those types, though, the Ikea cats will very soon revert to type and start scratching each other's eyes out, tearing out chunks of fur, and sousing the wood with piss before rutting each other senseless over the disassembled futon parts. ❋ James Donaghy (2010)

 We kept on sousing ourselves like it was coming out of a garden hose. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'General,' said he, 'I scorn to mind being either wet or dry; a soldier ought to be above such delicate effeminacy: it is not, therefore, the sousing I regard, provided I can once be clear it was not done for a joke.' ❋ Unknown (2008)

As its title suggests, it pays tribute to the modern father of making sousing look swank. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The direction and increase of the wind had made it necessary to keep the vessel still further to sea on their return than in going, that they might clear without risk the windy, sousing, thwacking, basting, scourging Jack Ketch of a corner called Old – Harry ❋ Unknown (2006)

There was a sousing in the water as of a brood of ducks plunging in, showing that the men had not been particular about keeping their legs, or even their waists, dry from the brine: but it was impossible to see what they were doing, and in a few minutes the shingle was trampled again. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Loud sousing and snorting noises were heard to proceed from a tub in the back quarters of the dwelling, proclaiming that he was there performing his great Sunday wash, lasting half-an-hour, to which his washings on working-day mornings were mere flashes in the pan. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When could she have a better opportunity than this of landing the scaly darling out of the fresh and free waters of his bachelor stream, and sousing him into the pool of domestic life, to be ready there for her own household purposes? ❋ Unknown (2004)

She got a sousing when the mare was in the quicksand, but I heard her purring not very long after, and was comforted. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Then, however, she did drop in for a sousing, and mewed in a manner that went to my heart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This rustic bridge enabled me to cross without running the danger of getting a regular sousing, for these mountain streams, even when not reaching so high as the knee, occasionally sweep the wader off his legs, as I know by my own experience. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the planter tells him all, sousing him in torrents of words, full of the violence of an outbreak of pent-up emotion. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Daughter, Diana Trelawny, Harry Joscelyn, say; continue with the lives of Sheridan and Cervantes; go on to the Makers of Florence and Rome; conclude by sousing yourself in the innumerable faded articles, reviews, sketches of one kind and another which she contributed to literary papers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Impossible!” he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red neck. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A rain curtain blew in from the heavy skies, cutting off sight of the sea creature and sousing everything with cold stinging droplets. ❋ Aldiss, Brian (1962)

This unlucky sousing in the flood settled the grip of the fever on Morgan. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

Then with the oar (which mother Anderson had abandoned when she took to dancing) in one hand and the dangling enemy in the other, he proceeded down the slope, out upon the little pier, and after sousing the refractory William in the lake, dropped him into his boat. ❋ Elizabeth Strong Worthington (N/A)

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