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bousy, a.1|ˈbuːzɪ, ˈbaʊzɪ|
[f. bouse v.1 + -y1.]
1. Affected with much drinking; intoxicated, sotted; showing the effects of intoxication.
a1529Skelton El. Rumming 17 Droupy and drowsy, Scuruy and lousy; Her face all bowsy. 1625Modell of Wi. 31 With quaffing and carowsing.. she could make him bowsie beyonde all measure. 1635Long Meg of Westm. ii, Neither beastly nor bowsie Sleepy nor drowsie. 1742Pope Dunciad iv. 493 Rous'd at his name up rose the bouzy Sire. 1842De Quincey Herodotus Wks. IX. 195 And every day got bousy as a piper.
2. Addicted to bousing, drunken.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 232 A seale to marke the bowsie drunkard to die of the dropsie. 1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass v. vi. (1631) 164 To be greazy, and bouzy..ragged and louzy. 1708Hearne Coll. (1885) II. 109 There's..Royce y⊇ Bouzy.
Hence ˈbousyish, bowsyish, a., rather bousy.
1832J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 721 The oracular lip of your Lordships..Bowsyish Depute. |