Crossword Dictionary
SUDSy
lathery, sudsy - a
resembling lather or covered with lather
Synonyms
lathery, barmy, boiling, burbling, carbonated, creamy, ebullient, effervescent, fermented
Examples
Prepare a small bowl of warm sudsy water with any of the mild liquid detergents used in the home.
They did it together, soaping, sponging, laughing with the warm sudsy water sensuous against them.
Fox knocked some snow off his window and dipped a rag into a bucket of sudsy water. "I think it's because the snow doesn't stick to windows when they are clean, " said Fox.
Etymology
suds (n.)
1540s, "dregs, leavings, muck," especially in East Anglia, "ooze left by flood" (according to OED this may be the original sense), perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch sudse "marsh, bog," or related words in Frisian and Low German, cognate with Old English soden "boiled," from Proto-Germanic *suth-, from PIE *seut- "to seethe, boil" (see seethe). Meaning "soapy water" dates from 1580s; slang meaning "beer" first attested 1904. Related: Sudsy.