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water-souchy|-ˈsuːtʃɪ, -ˈsuːʃɪ|
Forms: α. 8 -zootje, -zuche, -zouchee, -zoochey, 9 -zootie, -zuchée, -zoutchee; β. 8 -sokey; γ. 8 -soochy, -sutchy, -sousee, 9 -souchee, souchet, 8–9 -suchy, -souchy.
[a. Du. waterzootje, f. water water n. + zootje, zoodje boiling (of fish), dim. of zode boiling, related by ablaut to zieden seethe v. A solitary example of MF. soucié (a. Du. zootje) is given by Godefroy.
The form sokey is prob. due to association with soak v.; the form souchet seems to be pseudo-Fr.]
Fish (properly perch) boiled and served in its own liquor.
1731Fielding Grub St. Opera iii. xi, An Irishman loves potatoes;..a Dutchman, waterzuche. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. s.v. Soochy, A Water Soochy, a Dish of Perch dressed after the Holland fashion. 1737[G. Smith] Cur. Relat. I. 214, I then order'd a couple of Chickens to be roasted, and a Water Zootje (boild Perch) to be made. 1747H. Glasse Cookery ix. 90 Water-Sokey. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 155 A gentleman..desired him to show him the way of dressing a water-sutchy. 1762Ann. Reg. ii. 34 His water souchy was borrowed from Marshal d'Auverquerque's table, when he was first in Holland. 1763Gentl. Mag. XXXIII. 221/2 Gentry from London, who come to feast on water sousee [at Dorking]. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 212 The Dutch are particularly fond of it [the perch] when made into a dish called Water Souchy. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 37 To dress Perch in Water Sokey. 1775T. Bridges Dutchman i. vi. 22 Song. Myn[heer]. Water Zouchee is a Dish In the foremost Rank of Fish. 1779Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 290 Pray tell me how you choose to have the perch dressed, in a water-zoochey, or plain boiled. 1826Margravine of Anspach Mem. II. 282 The Dutch are phlegmatic, from their fondness for water-zooties. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Sir Rupert, How she Apologised much for their plain water-souchy. 1846A. Soyer Cookery 135 Flounders, Water Souchet. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. xv, A fish dinner!..terrines of turtle, pools of water souchee. 1848W. F. Campbell Life in Normandy (1863) II. 1 A very rich variety of water zoutchee. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xx, Go and reclaim your rights over bowls of water-souchy. 1862W. P. Lennox Recreat. Sportsm. II. 206 ‘Eels stewed, boiled, and spitchcocked,’ ‘perch water zuchée,’ said the waiter, as the tureens and dishes were uncovered. 1863M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd xvi, A day on which stern business men..rush wildly to the Crown and Sceptre, to cool their overheated systems with water souchy and still hock.
Comb.1816Gifford B. Jonson's Wks. III. 300 Our days have witnessed an attempt to revive the Collegiates—but this was a water-suchy club, merely ridiculous.
b. By Walpole jocularly used for: A sodden mass (said of a ruined hay or corn crop).
1769H. Walpole Let. to Cole 26 June, My hay is an absolute water soochy. 1784― Let. to H. S. Conway 30 June, 'Tis very dear to make nothing but a water-souchy of it [the hay-crop]. 1784― Let. to Earl of Strafford 7 Sept., It was cruel to behold such expanse of corn everywhere, and yet see it all turned to a water-souchy. 1789― Let. to Miss Mary Berry 30 June.
Hence (back-formation) water-zoutch v. trans. To stew (flounders, etc.) in just enough water to cover them. rare—1.
1846Smart Dict. Suppl., To Zoutch v... Hence Water-zouched, a. 1861J. Brown Horæ Subsec. Ser. ii. 7 Dinners at Lovegrove's with flounders water-zoutched, and iced claret. |