bowsy

Take a bowsy short leave of your nymphs on the shore,

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

I could not help telling, as a different application of the words, how an old dame riding home along Cockenzie Sands, pretty bowsy, fell off the pillion, and her husband, being in good order also, did not miss her till he came to Prestonpans.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

“Sure, amn’t I never done at the drunken bowsy ever since he left school?

Dubliners 2003

"Sure, amn't I never done at the drunken bowsy ever since he left school?

Dubliners James Joyce 1911