bouse
English
Etymology 1
Of unknown origin.
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Verb
bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)
Etymology 2
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.
Noun
bouse (countable and uncountable, plural bouses)
- (obsolete) drink, especially alcoholic drink
- 1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 46:
- Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken
- (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.
Verb
bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)
- (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
- c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bvsh”, 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
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French
Etymology
From Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian. Cognate with Piedmontese busa, Ligurian bêusa, bûsa, bûsia and Occitan bosa, bosia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buz/
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Further reading
- “bouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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