Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
boozy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Drunken; sotted; boozy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Archaic form of
boozy .
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Examples
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All grades of "vagrom men," with their frauds and shifts, are passed in review, and when Copland asks about their "bousy" speech, the porter entertains him with these lines.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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I'm a criminal, guilty of infatuation and flamboyance in the bousy face of love, love, love.
Chewing Used Gum 2009
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Egypt, got bousy in the Pyramid of Cheops, ate a beef-steak in the hanging-gardens of Babylon, and listened to no sailors 'yarns at the
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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