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boose

/buːs/

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Northern Ireland/ˈbʉs/

boose noun: a stall for an animal (usually a cow). Also the alternative spelling of booze.

Noun

boose (plural booses)

  1. (dialectal) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
    • 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

Proper noun capitalized: Boose

Boose (plural Booses)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

boose is also the alternative spelling of booze.

Forms of boose

Noun
pluralbooses
alternative formboosy
alternative formboosey
Verb
third-person singular presentbooses
present participleboosing
past participleboosed
pastboosed
Proper noun
pluralBooses

Origin of boose

From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

Words formed from boose

Words that rhyme with boose

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Questions about boose

What does boose mean?
Boose means a stall for an animal (usually a cow).
What part of speech is boose?
Boose can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce boose?
Boose is pronounced /buːs/.
What is the plural of boose?
The plural of boose is booses.

Words near boose in the dictionary

  1. boortsog
  2. booru
  3. boorus
  4. boos
  5. Boosbeck
  6. boose
  7. boosed
  8. booser
  9. boosers
  10. booses
  11. Boosey

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