boosy

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

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Adjective

boozy (comparative boozier, superlative booziest)

1. Intoxicated by alcohol.

   Synonyms:

   drunk

2. Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
   • Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

   Synonyms:

   drunk, sottish

3. Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
   • We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
4. Containing or cooked with alcohol.
   • For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.

   Synonyms:

   alcoholic