different between booze vs suds

English

Etymology

Alteration of bowse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo?oz, IPA^(key): /bu?z/

• Homophone: boos

• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage.
   • 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars:

     She got caught between the shadows and the booze

     And she surely did know how to have the blues

2. (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Synonyms

• grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• piss
• plonk

Verb

booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)

1. (slang) To drink alcohol.
   • 1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life

     This is better than boozing in public houses.

Translations

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): /s?dz/

Noun

suds (uncountable)

1. Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
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

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.