booze
pronunciation
How to pronounce booze in British English:
UK [bu:z]
How to pronounce booze in American English:
US [buz]
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- Noun:
- distilled rather than fermented
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- Verb:
- consume alcohol
Word Origin
- booze
- booze: [13] This word seems to have been borrowed on two distinct and widely separate occasions from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink much alcohol’ (which some have connected with Middle High German būs ‘swelling’). In the 13th century this gave Middle English bouse, which if it had continued to the present day would have rhymed with the verb house. However, in the 16th century the Middle Dutch word was reborrowed, giving modern English booze.
- booze (n.)
- by 1821, perhaps 1714; probably originally as a verb, "to drink a lot" (1768), variant of Middle English bouse (c. 1300), from Middle Dutch busen "to drink heavily," related to Middle High German bus (intransitive) "to swell, inflate," of unknown origin. The noun reinforced by name of Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booz. Johnson's dictionary has rambooze "A drink made of wine, ale, eggs and sugar in winter time; or of wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c.World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo.
Example
- 1. Booze can be made right in your cell .
- 2. Some ministries have stopped serving booze at functions .
- 3. In 1976 the nordic nations expelled a dozen north korean diplomats for trafficking cigarettes and booze .
- 4. Then a sozzled client drags him away jeering that he always steals the booze .
- 5. I tried to envision where my wife had hidden the booze over all these dry days .