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bousy

bousy is the obsolete form of boozy.

Meaning of boozy

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

Forms of bousy

comparativemore bousy
superlativemost bousy

Questions about bousy

What is bousy the obsolete form of?
Bousy is the obsolete form of boozy.

Words near bousy in the dictionary

  1. boustrophedonic
  2. boustrophedonical
  3. boustrophedonically
  4. boustrophedons
  5. boustrophic
  6. bousy
  7. bout
  8. bouta
  9. boutade
  10. boutades
  11. boutargue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bousy (page history and authors); boozy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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