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bouzing-ken

bouzing-ken is the alternative spelling of bousing ken.

Meaning of bousing ken

Noun

bousing ken (plural bousing kens)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A pub; a public house; a tavern.
    • My doxy stays for me in a bousing ken, brave captain.1607–10, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, act 5, scene 1
    Synonyms:
    pub

Forms of bouzing-ken

pluralbouzing-kens

Questions about bouzing-ken

What is bouzing-ken the alternative spelling of?
Bouzing-ken is the alternative spelling of bousing ken.

Words near bouzing-ken in the dictionary

  1. Bouzigard
  2. Bouzigards
  3. bouzillage
  4. bouzing ken
  5. bouzing kens
  6. bouzing-ken
  7. bouzing-kens
  8. bouzouk
  9. bouzouki
  10. bouzoukia
  11. bouzoukias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bouzing-ken (page history and authors); bousing ken (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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