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bouses

bouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Proper noun capitalized: Bouses

Bouses

  1. (plural) plural of Bouse

Questions about bouses

What is bouses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bouse.
What part of speech is bouses?
Bouses is a proper noun.

Words near bouses in the dictionary

  1. Bous
  2. bouse
  3. boused
  4. bouser
  5. bousers
  6. bouses
  7. Bousfield
  8. Bousfields
  9. bousillage
  10. bousing
  11. bousing ken

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