Boose
name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A stall for an animal (usually a cow). dialectal
"It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced."
- 2 Alternative spelling of booze. alt-of, alternative
"1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles" 'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it; And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before."
- 1 Alternative spelling of booze. alt-of, alternative
"Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?"
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
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More examples"It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced."
Etymology
From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).
From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).
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