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English
Etymology
Alteration of bousing ken.
Noun
boozing ken (plural boozing kens)
- (archaic, British slang) A pub; a public house; a tavern.
1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 54:We straight betook our selves to the Boozing Ken; and having bubb'd nimly, we concluded an everlasting friendship.
1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, pages 303–304:The Ruffler, who found his representative in a very magnificently equipped, and by no means ill-favoured knave, whose chin was decorated with a beard as lengthy and as black as Sultan Mahmood's, together with the dexterous Hooker, issued forth from the hovel which they termed their boozing ken, eager to catch a glimpse of the Prince of the High Toby Gloaks.
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References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “boozing ken”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 165.
- John S Farmer, compiler (1890) “boozing ken”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume I, Thomas Poulter and Sons] , →OCLC, pages 297–298.