boozing ken

plural boozing kens · alternative boozing-ken

1. BritisharchaicslangA pub; a public house; a tavern.

   We straight betook our selves to the Boozing Ken; and having bubb'd nimly, we concluded an everlasting friendship.

   1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 54

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   The Ruffler, who found his representative in a very magnificently equipped, and by no means ill-favoured knave, whose chin was decorated with a beard as lengthy and as black as Sultan Mahmood's, together with the dexterous Hooker, issued forth from the hovel which they termed their boozing ken, eager to catch a glimpse of the Prince of the High Toby Gloaks.

   1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, pages 303–304

   Synonyms: pub