▪ I. bouzy, boozy, a.1 Sc.
(ˈbuːzɪ)
[? variant of bushy.]
bosky, bushy.
| 1807 Hogg Mount. Bard 154 (Jam.) In a cottage, poor and nameless, By a little bouzy linn. a 1810 Rem. Nithsdale Song 67 A paukie cat..Wi' a bonnie bowsie tailie. 1808 Jamieson s.v., A tree rich in foliage is said to have a boozy top. |
▪ II. ˈbouzy, a.2 north. dial.
Also boozy, bowsy.
[Cf. Ger. baus, ‘swollenness, inflation’: see bouse v.1]
Big, bulky, corpulent.
| 1807 J. Stagg Poems 62 Down his boozy burden fell. 1808 Jamieson Dict., Bouzy-like, having the appearance of distension, or largeness of size. 1875 F. K. Robinson Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bowzy, big-bellied. |
▪ III. bouzy, -ie, a.3
obs. forms of bousy, sotted.