Suds

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. Soapy water.
  • noun-plural. Foam; lather.
  • noun-plural. Slang Beer.
  • v. To wash in suds.
  • verb-intransitive. To form or make suds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. lather, foam
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Water impregnated with soap, forming a frothy mass; a lixivium of soap and water.
  • The foam or spray churned up by a wounded whale; White water.
  • In the suds, in turmoil or difficulty; in distress.
  • A manufacturers' name for various waste soap-liquors incidentally produced in the industries of wool- and silk-scouring, -bleaching, -dyeing, etc. These were formerly allowed to run off into river-courses, but, in view of their polluting effect on the water, measures are now adopted to at least partially prevent this pollution and recover some material of value from the suds. See Yorkshire grease, sake, 2, and sudcake.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. wash in suds
  • v. make froth or foam and become bubbly
  • n. the froth produced by soaps or detergents
  • n. a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces)
  • Verb Form
    sudsed    sudsing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    launder    wash    create    make    beer   
    Form
    suds up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lixivium   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloods    bloods    buds    duds    floods    muds    scuds    spuds    studs   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lather    soapsuds    seawater    lye    buttermilk    froth    rinse    spittle    gruel