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Synonyms for suds

Grammar : Noun
Spell : suhdz
Phonetic Transcription : sÊŒdz

Définition of suds

Origin :
  • 1540s, "dregs, leavings, muck," especially in East Anglia, "ooze left by flood" (this may be the original sense), perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch sudse "marsh, bog," cognate with Old English soden, past participle of seoþan (see seethe). Meaning "soapy water" dates from 1580s; slang meaning "beer" first attested 1904.
  • noun froth
Example sentences :
  • Not until she was elbow deep in suds did she recall her dreams about the octopus.
  • Extract from : « Weak on Square Roots » by Russell Burton
  • Azuba wiped the suds from her wet hand and arm upon her apron.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • He splashed and built up a mountain of suds, then wallowed in them.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • Then wash them, in the second suds, turning them wrong side out.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Lastly, wash the flannels, in suds as hot as the hand can bear.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Do not put blueing into suds, as it makes specks in the flannel.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Wet white clothes in suds, and lay them on the grass, in the sun.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Wash them in suds, and rinse them till the water comes off clear.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Dorey, go and stir down the clo'es in the boilin' suds, and be quick about it, too!
  • Extract from : « Joyce's Investments » by Fannie E. Newberry
  • Dorey, stop jouncin' them hot clo'es up an' down in the suds!
  • Extract from : « Joyce's Investments » by Fannie E. Newberry

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