ouse

ouse (third-person singular simple present ouses, present participle ousing, simple past and past participle oused)

1. Dated form of ooze.

• -eous

ou- +‎ -se

ouse

1. you (plural) do not

ouse

1. you (plural) are not
2. you (plural) were not

ouse

1. inflection of ousar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• ouz, uz

From Middle English ūs, from Old English ūs.

• IPA^(key): /uːz/
• Homophone: owze

ouse

1. us
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:

     Ha deight ouse var gabble, tell ee zin go t'glade.

     You have put us in talk, 'till the sun goes to set.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Come w' ouse, gosp Learry, theezil an Melchere;

     Come with us, gossip Larry, yourself and Miles;

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:

     Ayenst zim vartful ropeare at a rumcht ouse avar.

     Against some wanton ranter that has raved (at) us before.

• gu es (“give us”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 60