Meanings
present singular third person sozzles · participle present sozzling · participle past sozzled · past sozzled
- USdialectalTo splash or wet carelessly.
A sandpiper glided weet weeting along the shore; she ran after it, but could not catch it; she sat down and sozzled her feet in the foam
1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret - To heap up in confusion.
she sozzled out that red scarf, which looks so lovely around her neck, for him. Just ruined it.
1867, Ann S. Stephens, “Married by Mistake”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Origin
From a variant of sossle, equivalent to soss + -le (frequentative suffix).
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