SG Heritage Dictionary

Suds [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. sing. Water impregnated with soap.

2. To be in the suds to be in turmoil or difficulty; a familiar phrase.

Suds [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

Bubble Roget’s Thesaurus §353

N. bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity

Phr. "the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened landscip"