The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booze \Booze\ (b[=oo]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boozed
(b[=oo]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Boozing.] [D. buizen; akin to
G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box,
jar.]
To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to
tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.]
--Landor.
This is better than boozing in public houses.
--H. R.
Haweis.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. (context nautical English) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle. vb. (context nautical English) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context obsolete English) drink, especially alcoholic drink 2 (context obsolete English) a carouse; a booze vb. (context obsolete English) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
WordNet
v. haul with a tackle [syn: bowse]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 562
Land area (2000): 10.093479 sq. miles (26.141990 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.093479 sq. miles (26.141990 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07310
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 33.933657 N, 114.008268 W
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Headwords:
Bouse
Usage examples of "bouse".
I started for the hotel, only to see the Princess coming into sight from beyond the custom bouse, and, following her, the porter carrying her baggage.
On the plane to Dublin I sit next to an old woman wearing a blue bouse and a black velvet skirt.
In Athens she eventually found work as a governess and came to know a Cretan visitor to the bouse, a fiery nationalist and soldier whose father had been one of the leaders of the Greek war for independence.
Nice young couple of mortals renovating an old bouse found an ancient box of papers in the attic and brought it to me, pound signs dancing before their eyes.
On the plane to Dublin I sit next to an old woman wearing a blue bouse and a black velvet skirt.
The final affidavit refuting Harry Fleisher's alibi was from Patrolman Albert Bice of the Bethune Avenue Station.
According to Bice, when he spoke to Fleisher he responded with a wave of his hand.
The next day when a teletype came into the station naming Fleisher as a suspect in the massacre, Bice mentioned to his superior that he had seen Fleisher the previous day.
Are you the sort to go hungry because you begrudge the outlay of a few bice?
Everyone is the better for an occasional purge, which we offer at ten bice.
None of us would refuse to drag home a sack of sequins, but neither would we care to challenge impossibility for a chancy bice.
She was trying to paint a fairy queen's frock with green bice, and it wouldn't rub.
I saw the first two lines - I wonder why Green Bice Is never very nice.
Worthy I mean, and men of good report, And not the wretches who with Conscience sport: There’s Bice, my friend, who passes off his grease Of pigs for bears’, in pots a crown apiece.
But oddly, as I got close to the flat ground and the bouses, a strange shyness came over me.