boose

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See also: Boose and bòose

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (cow-stall)), from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (stall), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (to tie, bind).

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Noun

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boose (plural booses)

  1. (dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
    • 1854 July 15, Notes and Queries, number 246, page 50:
      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 2

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

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boose

  1. Alternative spelling of booze
    • 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.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC:
      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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Verb

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boose (third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed)

  1. Alternative spelling of booze
    • 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman:
      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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