sozzle

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/ˈsɒzəl/

noun

One who spills water or other liquids carelessly.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounsozzle (plural sozzles)

plural sozzles

  1. archaicOne who spills water or other liquids carelessly.
  2. archaicAn untidy woman.
  3. A confusedly mingled mass or heap.
verbsozzle (third-person singular simple present sozzles, present participle sozzling, simple past and past participle sozzled)

present singular third person sozzles · participle present sozzling · participle past sozzled · past sozzled

  1. 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
  2. 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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APA

sozzle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sozzle

MLA

“sozzle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sozzle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sozzle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sozzle.

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