bousy, a.1
(ˈbuːzɪ, ˈbaʊzɪ)
[f. bouse v.1 + -y1.]
1. Affected with much drinking; intoxicated, sotted; showing the effects of intoxication.
| a 1529 Skelton El. Rumming 17 Droupy and drowsy, Scuruy and lousy; Her face all bowsy. 1625 Modell of Wi. 31 With quaffing and carowsing.. she could make him bowsie beyonde all measure. 1635 Long Meg of Westm. ii, Neither beastly nor bowsie Sleepy nor drowsie. 1742 Pope Dunciad iv. 493 Rous'd at his name up rose the bouzy Sire. 1842 De Quincey Herodotus Wks. IX. 195 And every day got bousy as a piper. |
2. Addicted to bousing, drunken.
| 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 232 A seale to marke the bowsie drunkard to die of the dropsie. 1616 B. Jonson Devil an Ass v. vi. (1631) 164 To be greazy, and bouzy..ragged and louzy. 1708 Hearne Coll. (1885) II. 109 There's..Royce y⊇ Bouzy. |
Hence ˈbousyish, bowsyish, a., rather bousy.
| 1832 J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 721 The oracular lip of your Lordships..Bowsyish Depute. |