Boose
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /buːs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Boose is a noun meaning (dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
Meaning
(dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
More Meanings
- Alternative spelling of booze.
Example Sentences
Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.
1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles" 'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it; And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.
It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced.
Word Forms
- booses
- boosy
- boosey
- boosing
- boosed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boosy, stall, bail, cowbarn, cowstall, stell.
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