boozing n.
1. drinking; see also bousing n.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Eng. Rogue I 36: Most part of the night we spent in Boozing, pecking rumly or wapping. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 228: When the Mauts and Rum Culls have recruited our Store, / We’ll return to our Boozing. O Pity the Poor. | |
| York Spy 29: This is an incomparable Provocative for Boozing. | |
| ‘The Rakes of Stony Batter’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 339: Nancy, Doll, & Susan, / To please their sweethearts well, sometimes will go a boozing. | |
| Hants. Chron. 23 Apr. 4/3: Immediately after dinner, as soon as the cloth is removed, the boozing begins. | |
 | Cobbett’s Wkly Political Reg. 14 Oct. 2/1: They [...] intended to set the exampleof boozing and gormanidizing and carousing. | |
| Eng. Humorists 198: All that fuddling and punch-drinking, that club and coffee-house boozing [...] enlarged the waistcoats of the men. | |
| Wilds of London (1881) 132: Without doubt Sunday is recognized by the undertaking fraternity as a day for boozing and drunkenness. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 21 Sept. 1/2: I have bee convicted of most everything [...] from boosing to burglary. | |
| Westminster Gazette 20 Mar. 7: Much too much has been made of ‘drink,’ and ‘lessons,’ and ‘sodden,’ and ‘boozing’ in relation to the picture by Degas. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Artie (1963) 101: No more chasin’ around at nights, no blowin’ my stuff against a lot o’ dubs and no more boozin’. | |
| Powers That Prey 126: Next time ’t I chew the rag with you about cuttin’ up in the streets an’ boozin’, you want to listen. | |
| ‘That Pretty Girl on the Army’ in Roderick (1972) 481: There was much beer boozing. | |
| Job 204: ‘I’m going to cut-out—all this boozing and stuff’. | |
| Home to Harlem 213: Boozing and poking and rooting around, jolly enough all right, but not altogether contented. | |
| Redheap (1965) 48: ‘He’s onter me for boozin’. Sees me comin’ out o’ Cassidy’s full as a tick. Eighteen long uns I had’ . | |
| (con. 1920s) Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 747: All the boozing and things he’d done in his life, they had sure backfired on him. | |
| Never Come Morning (1988) 139: The voice was hoarse from a hundred cells. Or from boozing. It was hard to tell. | |
| Fings I i: Girls Thinkin’ abaht boozin’ / Boys Thinkin’ abaht whorin’. | |
| Best Man To Die (1981) 25: At his age boozing didn’t have much visible effect. | |
| Tales of the City (1984) 63: A girl like that was gettin’ down . . . boogying and boozing. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 8: His boozin’ never particularly bothered me. | |
| Powder 96: Even James was restless, edgy from the non-stop smoking, boozing and snorting of the last few days. | |
| Indep. Rev. 22 Jan. 3: There was a lot of boozing and a lot of brawling. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| A Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 112: Whoring and Drinking consumes all the Money, Wapping and Busing mills all the Lowyer. | |
| Seven Curses of London 346: Two or three of his boozing companions [...] took him under their protction. | |
| Life in the Ranks 130: The canteen is the great centre of attraction to the boosing fraternity. | |
| Police! 322: Drunken thief ... Boozing gonoph. | |
| Harry The Cockney 231: It’s a boozing club, really. | |
| (con. 1900s–10s) 42nd Parallel in USA (1966) 33: You and your godless socialistic boozin’ ways. | |
| Roll On My Twelve 37: By the time we were put ashore it had [...] got a crack down through the friar’s boozing-party. |
In compounds
see bousing-ken n.
(UK Und.) a bottle.
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Rum-hopper, tip us presently a Boozing-cheat of Rum-gutlers, c. Drawer fill us presently a Bottle of the best Canary. | |
| Triumph of Wit. | |
| New Canting Dict. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
(UK Und.) a public house used by villains.
| London Eve. Standard 29 Oct. 3/3: The piece opens with Clifford’s determination to quit ‘the boozing crib’ of his old protectrix. | |
| Leeds Times 4 June 6/2: The god of thieving [...] the idol of unnumbered votaries in many a ‘Flash Ken’ and many a ‘Boozing Crib’. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 49/1: Bill lived in a small house in the next street, quite convenient to all the ‘flash boozing cribs’ in that quarter. | |
| Sharping London 34: Boozing Crib, a low public-house. | |
| Bulldog Drummond 196: Somebody has been rough-housing [...] Looks like a boozing den after a thick night. | |
| News Rev. (Roeburg, OR) 17 July 4/6: A fair face and a pretty leg enliven any boozing den. |
(UK Und.) a drunkard.
| Amorous Gallant’s Tongue n.p.: A Buesing Coll Drunkard. |
see bousing-ken n.