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bousing

bousing is the present participle and gerund 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 bousing

What is bousing the present participle and gerund of?
Bousing is the present participle and gerund of bouse.

Words near bousing in the dictionary

  1. bousers
  2. bouses
  3. Bousfield
  4. Bousfields
  5. bousillage
  6. bousing
  7. bousing ken
  8. bousing kens
  9. bousing-ken
  10. bousing-kens
  11. Bouska

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