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.
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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.
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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.
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Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.
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Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
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