Suds
[sʌdz]
Definition
(noun.) a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces).
(verb.) wash in suds.
Typist: Naomi--From WordNet
Definition
(n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
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Definition
n.pl. boiling water mixed with soap.
Edited by Barbie
Examples
- Her fingers were white and wrinkled with washing, and the soap-suds were yet smoking which she wiped off her arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It is washing-day, and the maids are over the crown of the head in soap-suds in the back kitchen, so I asked her to step up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Dishes used by consumptives, and persons suffering from contagious diseases, can be made harmless by thorough washing in thick suds of almost boiling water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Edited by Julius