bouse

Of unknown origin.

• bowse

bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)

1. (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

From Middle English bous (noun), bousen (verb), from Middle Dutch būsen, buisen, buysen (“to drink heavily”). Related to Middle High German būsen (“to swell, inblow”). More at beer.

bouse (countable and uncountable, plural bouses)

1. (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink
   • 1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue‎, page 46:

     Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken

2. (obsolete) a carouse; a booze
   • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia‎, volume 1, Chapman and Hall, published 1873, page 192:

     Six-and-twenty years of prison; the first seventeen years of it strict and hard, almost of the dungeon sort; the remainder, on his fairly abdicating, was in another Castle, that of Callundborg in the Island of Zealand, 'with fine apartments and conveniences,' and even 'a good bouse of liquor now and then,' at discretion of the old soul.

bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)

1. (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
   • c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with

• Bueso

From Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian. Cognate with Piedmontese busa, Ligurian bêusa, bûsa, bûsia and Occitan bosa, bosia.

• IPA^(key): /buz/

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bouse f (plural bouses)

1. cowpat
2. (heraldry) water-bouget

• bouseux

• “bouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.