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bowsies

bowsies is the plural of bowsie.

bowsies is the plural of bowsy.

Meaning of bowsie

Noun

bowsie (plural bowsies)

  1. A simple device with three holes used for tensioning stays on boats or guy-lines on tents.

Meaning of bowsy

Noun

bowsy (plural bowsies)

  1. (Ireland, colloquial) An unsavoury and unreliable (usually male) layabout.
    • —The mockery of it, he said contentedly, secondleg they should be. God knows what poxy bowsy left them off.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Questions about bowsies

What is bowsies the plural of?
Bowsies is the plural of bowsie.

Words near bowsies in the dictionary

  1. bowshot
  2. bowshots
  3. bowside
  4. bowsie
  5. bowsier
  6. bowsies
  7. bowsiest
  8. bowsing
  9. bowsing ken
  10. bowsing kens
  11. bowsing-ken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowsies (page history and authors); bowsie (page history and authors); bowsy (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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