Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. Aus.) a drunkard.

1886		Eve. News (Sydney) 15 May 7/6: I used to get lots of ‘boozingtons’ home to dinner.
1888		All Slopers Half Holiday 15 Sept. 290/3: ‘Wot sort of a man is Mr. Sloper’ repeated Boozington. ‘Why, ’e’s wot I calls a genelman [...] Wen offers a feller a drink,’e ’ands ’im the bottle, and then ’e turns back so that a feller can take jest as much as ’e wants, without bein’ thought greedy’.
1891		Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 25 Dec. 5/1: First Fair One. What n really splendid dancer Mr. Boozington is [...] He is engaged many dances. Second Fair One. He’s quite right; he is—in the refreshment room.
1891		Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 27 Nov. 2/2: ‘Boozington’ has been reading the MINER, and, mirabile dictu, the leading articles!
1892		Logansport Reporter (IN) 8 July 4/4: Old Simon Boozington sat at a table with a decanter and chipped ice in front of him [...] ‘Z’t c’kus. Fo’ty thous’n girls sp’nin’, like win’mills. Fairly intox’cated me’.
1901		Lead Daily Pioneer-Times (SD) 11 July 2/3: Two seedy and disreputable individuals [...] charged with vagrancy. They were John Davis of Deadwood and ‘Boozington Charley’ [...] They had both been drinking [...] all the booze they could bum.
1906		Gadfly (Adelaide) 18 July 20/2: Shown over Boozington’s wine cellar in morning. Slept all afternoon. Bad headache when I woke up.
1908		Dly Teleg. (Sydney) 24 Oct. 4/4: ‘Old Boozington, is sickening for his regular bi-weekly attack of the horrors.
1973		(ref. to 1890s) ‘Gloss. of Larrikin Terms’ in J. Murray Larrikins 202: boozington: a drunkard.