different between youse vs souse

English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

youse

1. Alternative form of yous

Usage notes

• Both yourselves and youseselves are found as reflexive forms:
  • 1903, William Lincoln Balch, A True Lover's Knot: A Comedietta for Vaudeville Team:

    "How's dis fer a bloomin' goil of de gutter, hey? Make youseselves acquainted, loidies an' gents, wit' […] "

  • 2006, Ridgwell Cullum, The Forfeit, Library of Alexandria (?ISBN):

    Same as youse fellers have helped yourselves out o' this bottle.

• Both your and youse's are found as possessive forms:
  • 1901, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, page 34:

    "Went away quick, now, or I'll come out dere an' bite off wan o' youse's fins."

  • 2004, Stephen J. Cannell, Hollywood Tough, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 152:

    "Mr. Valentine wants that youse keep that as his gift, and would very much like the pleasure of youse's company—no strings."

  • 2019, August Nemo, Francis Stevens, Essential Novelists - Francis Stevens: The Woman who Invented Dark Fantasy, Tacet Books (?ISBN):

    “I've brought youse your scoffin's,” he said. “Gee! Youse was a sight when youse fell out of diat hole. His nibs is waitin' to see youse.”

Determiner

youse

1. Alternative form of yous

   Have youse gentlemen finished talking?

Etymology 2

Contraction

youse

1. Alternative form of you'se

Usage notes

• The standard contraction for you is is you’s (e.g. talking to you’s always fun). In transcribing the AAVE usage of you is where standard English has you are, either you’s or youse is used. E.g, either you’s a damn fool or youse a damn fool.

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