Word origin
[1540–50, in sense “pickled”; 1605–15 for current sense;
souse1 +
-ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1540–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cabinet, horizon, mandate, monitor, vacuum-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: connected, loaded, truncated, unattended, unsettled