Word.ws English Dictionary

southsay

southsay is the obsolete form of soothsay.

Meaning of soothsay

Verb

soothsay (third-person singular simple present soothsays, present participle soothsaying, simple past and past participle soothsaid)

  1. (intransitive) To foretell the future; make predictions.

See all 3 meanings of soothsay

Forms of southsay

third-person singular presentsouthsays
present participlesouthsaying
past participlesouthsaid
pastsouthsaid

Questions about southsay

What is southsay the obsolete form of?
Southsay is the obsolete form of soothsay.

Words near southsay in the dictionary

  1. southron
  2. southrons
  3. Southrop
  4. souths
  5. southsaid
  6. southsay
  7. southsayer
  8. southsayers
  9. southsaying
  10. southsays
  11. Southsea

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: southsay (page history and authors); soothsay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “southsay.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/southsay. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.