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English
Etymology 1
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
boose (plural booses)
- (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
From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).
Pronunciation
Noun
boose
- 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.
Derived terms
Verb
boose (third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed)
- 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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