bousy adj.
(UK Und.) drunken.
![]() | Hye way to the Spyttel House Eiii: Come none of these pedlers this way also, / With pak on bak, with theyr bousy speche / Jagged and ragged with broken hose and breche. | |
![]() | Bokes n.p.: Droupy and drowsy / Scuruy and lowsy / Her face all bowsy. | |
![]() | Quip for an Upstart Courtier C3: He is (sir) to bee breefe a bowsie bawdy miser, good for none but himselfe and his trug . | |
![]() | Vertues common-vvealth n.p.: [H]e deserueth no other epithite then a bowsie beastly drunkard. | |
![]() | Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Enough – with bowsy Coue maund Nace, / Tour the Patring Coue in the Darkeman Case. | |
![]() | Martin Mark-all 9: Nicholas Chatbourne, the bowsie bagbearer. | |
![]() | Roaring Girle V i: O I wud lib all the lightmans [...] And couch till a palliard docked my dell, / So my bousy nab might skew rom-bouse well. | |
![]() | Bartholomew fayre 164: And in the meane time, to be greazy, and bouzy, / And nasty, and filthy, and ragged and louzy,. | |
![]() | [trans.] Ovid Romane calendar 111: The bouzy guest, deck'd with a film-flower crown, / In drunken garb there dances up and down. | |
![]() | Hey for Honesty 15: Let us be sure Pover[t]y die out-right, I begin to be bowsie in her company. | |
![]() | Select & Choice Poems 26: Victors but once grown bouzy with success, / Dream of nought else, but Gold and Gloriousness. | |
![]() | Informer’s Doom 96: [A] thredbare black coat [...] whereon the Map of Drunkenness was drawn, with the bawdy and bowsie excrements that dropt from his filthy leaking mouth. | |
![]() | Devil of a Wife 20: I am Bouzy and right for mischief; let's execute our design. | |
![]() | Squire of Alsatia 12: I was plaguy Bowsy last night with Squire Belfond: We had Fiddles, Whores, Scour'd, broke Windows, beat Watches, and roar'd like Thunder. | |
![]() | New Poems 135: Two buxum young Harlots were drinking with L— / [...] / All fluster’d and bousie / The doting old Sot. | |
![]() | Juvenal X 202: Drunk, at an Armies Dinner, to the Lees; With a long Legend of Romantick things, Which, in his Cups the Bowsy Poet sings. | |
![]() | Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 203: [...] Bowsy, drunk. We bowsed about, that is, we drank hard. | |
![]() | Canter’s Serenade in Musa Pedestris (1896) 43: Rise, shake off your straw, / And prepare you each maw / To kiss, eat, and drink till youre bouzy. | |
![]() | Gent.’s Mag. 559: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow, and no Flincher, under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he is [...] Bouzey. | |
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Pronouncing Dict. 60/2: Bousy, Drunken. | |
![]() | Tristia (1806) 48: In seas of rosy wine, Where rosy Pitt resign’d his boosing breath. | |
![]() | ‘Humours of Glasgow Fair’ [broadsheet ballad] Now Willock and Tam, gay and bouzy, / By this time had met with their joes. |