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suds

/sʌdz/

suds noun: lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.

Noun (1)

suds pl (normally plural, singular sud)

  1. (countable, plural, plural-normally, uncountable) Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
    • 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.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30
  2. (plural, plural-normally, slang) Beer.
    • We went out for some pizza and suds.

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.

Noun (2) capitalized: SUDS

SUDS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sudden unexpected death syndrome.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sudden unexplained death syndrome.

Noun (3) capitalized: SUDs

SUDs

  1. (plural) plural of SUD

suds meaning in Hindi, Arabic and Thai

suds in Hindi

lather, foam
साबुन का झाग sābun kā jhāg

suds in Arabic

lather, foam
رَغْوَة raḡwa

suds in Thai

lather, foam
ฟอง fɔɔng, ฟองฟอด fong fôt

Forms of suds

Noun
singularsud
Verb
third-person singular presentsudses
present participlesudsing
past participlesudsed
pastsudsed

Origin of suds

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

Words formed from suds

Words that rhyme with suds

Questions about suds

What does suds mean?
Suds means lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
What is suds in Hindi?
Suds in Hindi is साबुन का झाग (sābun kā jhāg). See Suds meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is suds?
Suds can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce suds?
Suds is pronounced /sʌdz/.

Words near suds in the dictionary

  1. sudoxicam
  2. sudra
  3. sudras
  4. sudrophone
  5. sudrophones
  6. suds
  7. suds up
  8. sudsed
  9. sudsed up
  10. sudser
  11. sudsers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suds (page history and authors); SUDS (page history and authors); SUDs (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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