bouse v.
(UK Und.) to drink; thus bousing n.
Caveat for Common Cursetours in (1907) 84: to bowse, to drynke. | ||
Pierce Pennilesse 67: The vintners, ale-wives, and victuallers, who surmise, if there were no Playes, they should haue all the companie that resort to them, lye bowzing and beere-bathing in their houses euery after-noon. | ||
Jacke Drums Entertainment Act I: Why cannot you come where headie liquore is, but you must needs bouze? | ||
O per se O O2: Ben bowse thou shalt Bowse thy fill. | Canting Song||
Coxcomb II ii: Come, prithee, let’s shog off, and bouse an hour or two. | ||
Epigrams IV No. 19: Yet such the fashion is of Bacchus crue, / To quaffe and bowse, vntil they belch and spue. | ||
Beggar’s Bush II i: Except you do provide me hum enough, / And lour to bouze with. | ||
Barnabees Journal III Q7: Having boldly thus adventur’d, / And my Sara’s socket enter’d, / Her I sued, suited, sorted, / Bussed, bouzed, sneezed, snorted. | ||
Crabree Lectures 191: Cove. I whid to thee: I budged to the bowsing Ken, & there I bowsed all my lower amongst the Beane Coves, and Doxes. | ||
Jovial Crew II i: Here, safe in our Skipper, let’s cly off our Peck, / And bowse in defiance o’ the Harman-Beck. | ||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II 321: Poor Panurge bibbed and bowsed of it most villainously. | (trans.)||
‘A Medley’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 252: One that can comply with Crosier and with Crown; / And yet can bouze / A full carouze, / While bottles tumble down. | ||
Scarronides 7: We [...] Ope our Town-Gates, Frolick, and Bouse Drink Sherry, in full Carouse. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Bowse [...] to Drink. | ||
Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 203: [...] We bowsed about, that is, we drank hard. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy III 146: It is a mad zeal for a Man to reveal, / His secret thoughts when he bouses. | ||
‘Frisky Moll’s Song’ in Harlequin Sheppard 23: A Famble, a Tattle, and two Popps, / Had my Boman when he was ta’en; / But had he not Bowz’d in the Diddle Shops, / He’d still been in Drury-Lane. | ||
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Homer Travestie (1764) I 207: And all day long / They bowz’d about, and had a song. | ||
Works (1842) 98/1: We sit bousing at the nappy, An’ gettin’ fou and unco happy. | Tam O’Shanter in||
Sporting Mag. June II 164/1: Bowzy, from whence undoubtedly our English word to bowse [...] to drink heartily. | ||
‘Whistle O’er the Lave O’t’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 275: We’ll bouse about , till Daddie Care / Sings whistle o’er the lave o’t. | ||
Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 195: Who seldom used to tope an’ bouse, / An’ seldom wagged their tale. | ‘Tweedmouth Town’||
Gloss. (1888) I 99: To bouse or bowze. To drink. | ||
Life & Death of Robert Kirkwood 6: Others clubbed their three bawbees for gill after gill, and sat bousing till all was done. | ||
Jack Tier (1852) I 10: No man is worse for bowsing out his jib when off duty, though i despise a drunkard. | ||
(con. 1843) White-Jacket (1990) 35: So far as his efficiency as a sea-officer was concerned, on shore at least Jack might bouse away as much as he pleased; but afloat it will not do at all. | ||
Slaver’s Adventures 29: ‘Come, Cringy,’ said Murphy, removing the liquor, ‘you have bowsed up your jib enough for one day. Take us over the bar, and you shall have a bottle of brandy for your wives.’. | ||
Ulysses 405: Bowsing nowt but claretwine. |