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bousing
▪ I. ˈbousing, vbl. n. [f. bouse v.1 + -ing1.] 1. Deep drinking, guzzling, tippling.a 1529 Skelton Image Hypocr. iv. 583 How they iest and iell, With bowsing and bollinge. 1567 Harman Caveat 23 The buriall was turned to bousing and belly chere. 1641 Hinde J. Bruen iv. 15 They..have [not] any skill i...
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boozing
▪ I. boozing, vbl. n. (ˈbuːzɪŋ) [f. booze v. + -ing1.] Deep drinking, toping.a 1529 [see bousing vbl. n.] 1851 Thackeray Eng. Hum. iv. (1858) 207 That club and coffee-house boozing. 1868 Geo. Eliot F. Holt 119 Extension of the suffrage can never mean anything for them but extension of boozing. b. at...
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Tam o' Shanter (poem)
begins:
When chapman billies leave the street,
And neibors, neibors, meet;
As market days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak the gate,
While we sit bousing
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bezzling
▪ I. † ˈbezzling, vbl. n. Obs. Also 6 bezeling, 7 bezelling, bezzeling, bisseling. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] Drunken revelry or dissipation, bousing.1599 Marston Sc. Villanie ii. vii. 206 That diuine part is soak't away in sinne, In sensuall lust, and midnight bezeling. 1641 Milton Animadv. Wks. (1851)...
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bousie
▪ I. bouse, bowse, v.1 (buːz, baʊz) Forms: 3, 6– bouse, bowse, 6–7 bowze, 7 bouz(e: see also booze. [ME. bousen, app. a. MDu. bûsen, early mod.Du. buizen to drink to excess, corresp. to Ger. bausen in same sense. The origin is not quite clear: Kluge takes the Ger. vb. to be derived from baus, MHG. b...
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Sea shanty
Bunt shanty
Used for "bousing up" (i.e. hauling) a bunt—the tightly bunched bundle of a sail that would need to be gathered up and fastened to the yard
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bousy
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 bow...
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List of French words of Germanic origin (A-B)
būrjan < Gmc)
bouscatier
bousculer "to turn upside down"
bousculade
bousculant
bousculé
bousculement
bousculeur
bousculeuse
bousin (also bouzin) ( < Eng bousing
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younker
younker (ˈjʌŋkə(r)) Forms: 6 yonckher, yongker, yonkar, yooncker, yoonker, yunker, Sc. ȝungker, ȝoungker, ȝounker, ȝonkier, 6–7 yoncker, Sc. ȝonker, 7 youngker, 6, 9 yunker, 8 younkier, 6– yonker, younker. [ad. MDu. jonckher, jonghheer, jonchere (mod.Du. jonker, jonkheer) = jonc young + hêre lord, m...
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doxy
▪ I. doxy1 (ˈdɒksɪ) Also 6 doccy, 6–7 doxe, 7 doxie, doxye, 7– doxey. [Derivation unknown: perh. like some other terms of rogues' cant, of continental origin; possibly a deriv. of dock n.2 3.] Originally the term in Vagabonds' Cant for the unmarried mistress of a beggar or rogue: a beggar's trull or...
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trice
▪ I. † trice, n.1 Obs. rare. Also 5 tryys, -st, -ste. [a. MDu. trîse, trijs, Du. trijs windlass, pulley, hoisting-block = MLG. trîsse, trîtse tackle, hoisting-rope (whence also Da. tridse, trisse, Sw. trissa sheave, pulley, Ger. trieze crane, pulley). Cf. trice v.] A pulley or windlass.1357–8 Ely Sa...
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jigger
▪ I. jigger, n.1 (ˈdʒɪgə(r)) Also 6 gygger, 7 giger, 8 jiger, 8–9 gigger. [In some senses, agent-noun from jig v.; the relationship of others is obscure.] I. 1. a. One who ‘jigs’ or dances a jig. Also, in dial., An odd-looking person, a ‘guy’. Cf. jig n.1 7.1675 Cotton Scoffer scofft 168 Venus... O ...
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ken
▪ I. ken, n.1 (kɛn) Also 7 kenn(e. [f. ken v.1] † 1. = kenning vbl. n.1 4 b. Obs.1545 St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 815 The place, wher we be at this present, ys thwartt of Shorham, too kennys allmoste frome the shore. 1574 Bourne Regim. for Sea xviii. (1577) 48 b, Neyther is it possible to see any lande...
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fly
▪ I. fly, n.1 (flaɪ) Pl. flies (flaɪz). Forms: fléoᵹe (in comb. fléoᵹ-, fléoh-), fl{yacu}ᵹe, Northumb. fléᵹe, 2–4 fliȝe, south. vliȝe, 3 fleoȝe, flye, south. vlie, 3–4 fleȝe, south. vleȝe, fleih, south.. vleih, 3–7, 8 Sc. flie, 4– north. and Sc. flee, 4–5 flegh, (4 fleeȝe, fleh, flei(ghe, fley(e, fl...
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