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plural booses
(dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow). quotations examples
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.
1854 July 15, Notes and Queries, number 246, page 50
Alternative spelling of booze quotations examples
'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.
1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles"
Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed
Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman