Boose

//buːs// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 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."

Verb
  1. 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?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

Etymology 3

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

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