souler

See also: soûler

English

Etymology

From soul +‎ -er.

Noun

souler (plural soulers)

1. (historical) A mummer or guiser.
   • 2002, Kerr Cuhulain, Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the Wiccan Warrior:

     Often the soulers were children, who would sing their ancient souling-songs from door to door in return for gifts or food.

Anagrams

• louers, roules

French

Alternative forms

• saouler, soûler

Etymology

Inherited from Old French saüler, from Latin satullāre, from satullus, diminutive of satur; cf. saturō, saturāre. Compare Italian satollare (“to stuff”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.le/

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Verb

souler

1. (transitive) to get (someone) drunk, to inebriate
2. (transitive, literary) to fill up as if with food
3. (transitive) to confuse or extenuate with an unending flow of something
4. (transitive, figuratively) to intoxicate or overexcite
5. (reflexive) to get drunk, to inebriate one's self

   Synonyms: enivrer, tchoquer

6. (reflexive) to consume excessively of something; to gorge oneself on something
7. (transitive, slang) to exasperate

   Cette meuf me soule, elle m’envoie des messages en permanence alors que je m’en fous.

   This chick gets on my nerves; she keeps sending me messages I don't give a shit about.

   • 2003, “Elle me saoule”, performed by Singuila:

     Je sais qu’j’suis pas cool / Mais cette petite me saoule / Il m’faut de l’alcool ou j’vais devenir maboul

     I know I'm not cool / But shorty's got me vexed / I need some alcohol or I'm going to go crazy

Conjugation

Conjugation of souler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	souler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soulant /su.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soulé /su.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	soule /sul/	soules /sul/	soule /sul/	soulons /su.lɔ̃/	soulez /su.le/	soulent /sul/
	imperfect	soulais /su.lɛ/	soulais /su.lɛ/	soulait /su.lɛ/	soulions /su.ljɔ̃/	souliez /su.lje/	soulaient /su.lɛ/
	past historic2	soulai /su.le/	soulas /su.la/	soula /su.la/	soulâmes /su.lam/	soulâtes /su.lat/	soulèrent /su.lɛʁ/
	future	soulerai /sul.ʁe/	souleras /sul.ʁa/	soulera /sul.ʁa/	soulerons /sul.ʁɔ̃/	soulerez /sul.ʁe/	souleront /sul.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soulerais /sul.ʁɛ/	soulerais /sul.ʁɛ/	soulerait /sul.ʁɛ/	soulerions /su.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	souleriez /su.lə.ʁje/	souleraient /sul.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	soule /sul/	soules /sul/	soule /sul/	soulions /su.ljɔ̃/	souliez /su.lje/	soulent /sul/
	imperfect2	soulasse /su.las/	soulasses /su.las/	soulât /su.la/	soulassions /su.la.sjɔ̃/	soulassiez /su.la.sje/	soulassent /su.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soule /sul/	—	soulons /su.lɔ̃/	soulez /su.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• soul
• dessouler

Further reading

• “souler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ourles, résolu, roules, roulés

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

souler

1. (Jersey) to be used to

Old French

Noun

souler oblique singular, m (oblique plural soulers, nominative singular soulers, nominative plural souler)

1. shoe