boose
/ˈbʉs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.51 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of booze.
verb
Alternative spelling of booze.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap."
- "Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?"
Etymology
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”).