sozzle

English

Etymology

From a variant of sossle, equivalent to soss +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

Noun

sozzle (plural sozzles)

  1. (archaic) One who spills water or other liquids carelessly.
  2. (archaic) An untidy woman.
  3. A confusedly mingled mass or heap.

Verb

sozzle (third-person singular simple present sozzles, present participle sozzling, simple past and past participle sozzled)

  1. (US, dialectal) To splash or wet carelessly.
    to sozzle the feet in water
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
  2. To heap up in confusion.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sozzle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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