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boused

boused is the simple past and past participle of bouse.

Meaning of bouse

Verb (1)

bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)

  1. To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

Verb (2)

bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)

  1. (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
    • you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse withc. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please...

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Questions about boused

What is boused the simple past and past participle of?
Boused is the simple past and past participle of bouse.

Words near boused in the dictionary

  1. Boursiquots
  2. Bourton
  3. Bourton-on-the-Water
  4. Bous
  5. bouse
  6. boused
  7. bouser
  8. bousers
  9. bouses
  10. Bousfield
  11. Bousfields

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