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Suds

//sʌdz// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water. countable, plural, plural-normally, uncountable

    "Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds."

  2. 2
    Initialism of sudden unexpected death syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    plural of SUD form-of, plural
  4. 4
    a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces) wordnet
  5. 5
    Beer. plural, plural-normally, slang

    "We went out for some pizza and suds."

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  1. 6
    Initialism of sudden unexplained death syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  2. 7
    the froth produced by soaps or detergents wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. transitive

    "We sudsed the car before washing it down until it gleamed like new."

  2. 2
    make froth or foam and become bubbly wordnet
  3. 3
    wash in suds wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud + -s. Related to seethe.

Etymology 2

From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud + -s. Related to seethe.

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