bousy

[boo-zee, bou-]

adjective

1. intoxicated; drunk; boozy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bousy¹

First recorded in 1520–30; bouse ² + -y ¹

Example Sentences

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

From Project Gutenberg

In his cups the bousy poet songs.

From Project Gutenberg

The verb to booze, boose, or bouse, meaning "to drink immoderately," and the adjective boozy, boosy, or bousy, meaning "drunken," are by no means new to our language, Dryden having written the form bousy in some of his verses; but booze as a noun signifying "liquor" is certainly too vulgar a word for constant employment in any formal literary composition.

From Project Gutenberg

Roused at his name, up rose the bousy sire, And shook from out his pipe the seeds of fire; Then snapt his box, and stroked his belly down: Rosy and reverend, though without a gown.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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