boose

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/buːs/Northern Ireland, Scotland/ˈbʉs//buːz/

noun

A stall for an animal (usually a cow).

OriginMiddle English bose ← Old English *bōs ← Proto-West Germanic *bans →
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Meanings

boose1

nounboose (plural booses)

plural booses · alternative boosy · alternative boosey

  1. dialectalA stall for an animal (usually a cow).

    It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced.

    1854 July 15, Notes and Queries, number 246, page 50

boose2

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of booze.

    1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles" 'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it; And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.

    1 more example

    Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
verbboose (third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed)

present singular third person booses · participle present boosing · participle past boosed · past boosed

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of booze.

    Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?

    1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman

Boose3

proper nounBoose (plural Booses)

plural Booses

  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
cow stallstall

Origin

boose · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰendʰ-“to tie, bind”
  2. Proto-Germanic*bansaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bans
  4. Old English*bōs
  5. Middle Englishbose
  6. Englishboose

From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).

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boose · noun, verb

  1. Middle Englishbousen
  2. Englishboose

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with boose

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Chicago

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