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suds /sʌdz /plural noun1Froth made from soap and water: she was up to her elbows in suds soap suds...- Swish up warm soap or detergent suds in the kitchen sink.
- He was in a large tub full of warm water filled with suds and bubbles.
- Wash in lukewarm soapy water, rinse until clear of suds in lukewarm water.
Synonyms lather, foam, froth, bubbles, soap, soapiness; fizz, effervescence literary spume 1.1North American informal Beer: they keep the suds flowing all night a can of suds...- All tickets are still priced under $10 and there's plenty of buzz to be had with your suds in the centrally-located beer tent.
- The bottle is made of heavier-gauge aluminum than a standard beer can, so it keeps the suds colder longer.
- He was once a part-owner of the Minnesota Vikings and owned a piece of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer during an era when microbrews were playing taps all over the name-brand suds.
verb [with object] chiefly North American1Lather, cover, or wash in soapy water: Martha sudsed my back...- Judging by the one I viewed, which involved a car wash and much sudsing of non-automotive parts, this was not surprising).
- Love the smell of the shampoo she's sudsing through your tresses?
1.1 [no object] Form suds: soft baby soap that sudsed...- Do not put any other cleaning compound inside dishwasher, as it may suds and interfere with dish washing action.
- The Drano, however, managed to get into the tub as well as in the drain and when I flushed 15 minutes later with hot water, the water in the tub was sudsing.
- His father asked him to run a project in the petro-chemical industry, producing LAB, a sudsing agent for the detergent industry.
Derivativessudsy /ˈsʌdzi/ adjective (sudsier, sudsiest) ...- Residents who live along the banks of Deep Cove's Parkside Creek woke up to a sudsy shock last Friday morning - billowing soap bubbles that foamed over a foot high in the creek.
- When freed of the sudsy water, rinsed, and toweled off, she launched into a joyful frenzy of rolling in the grass, her newly bleached fur glistening in the sunlight.
- As the water tumbles over the huge boulders forming a great cloak of foam, the dorsal fins of the salmon along their blue/black backs pierce the sudsy water like an emerging submarine.
OriginMid 19th century: of uncertain sense development but perhaps originally denoting the floodwater of the fens; compare with Middle Low German sudde, Middle Dutch sudse 'marsh, bog'; probably related to seethe. |