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sowce

sowce is the obsolete form of souse.

Meaning of souse

Noun

souse (plural souses)

  1. 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.1848, Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, page 58
  2. (Appalachia, US) Pickled scrapple.
  3. (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
  4. A pickle made with salt.
    Synonyms:
    alcoholic
  5. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  6. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.

See all 17 meanings of souse

Forms of sowce

Noun
pluralsowces
Verb
third-person singular presentsowces
present participlesowcing
past participlesowced
pastsowced

Questions about sowce

What is sowce the obsolete form of?
Sowce is the obsolete form of souse.

Words near sowce in the dictionary

  1. sowbreads
  2. sowbug
  3. sowbugs
  4. sowcar
  5. sowcars
  6. sowce
  7. sowced
  8. sowces
  9. sowcing
  10. Sowden
  11. Sowdens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sowce (page history and authors); souse (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.

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