different between nouse vs souse

English

Etymology

Blend of nose +? mouse

Noun

nouse (plural not attested)

1. (neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
   • 2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century (page 128)

     Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.

Anagrams

• Oenus, ouens

Finnish

Verb

nouse

1. Indicative present connegative form of nousta.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of nousta.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of nousta.

Anagrams

• osuen, osune

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultij? (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

Noun

souse (plural souses)

1. Something kept or steeped in brine
   1. The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
      • 1848, Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, page 58:

        And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.

      1. (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
      2. (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
   2. A pickle made with salt.
   3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
2. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
3. A person suffering from alcoholism.

Synonyms

• (person suffering from alcoholism): alcoholic, sot, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

See also

• (food): brawn, budin, haggis, head cheese, pudding, sausage, scrapple

Verb

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.

2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Derived terms

• soused

Etymology 2

Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).

Noun

souse (plural souses)

1. The act of sousing, or swooping.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book II Canto XI:

     Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare

2. A heavy blow.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book IV Canto VIII

     With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,

Verb

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

1. (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
2. (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto IV:

     Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.

   • 1697, Virgil, John Dryden (tr.), The works of Virgil translated into English verse by John Dryden, Æneis, IX:

     Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air

3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
   • , Act V Scene II:

     [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French sous (plural of sout).

Noun

souse

1. (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).
2. (dated) A small amount.

Anagrams

• ouses