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Boose
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 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?"
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).
From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).
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