Definitions for bouses

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bouses bouse

Spelling: [bous, bouz]

IPA: /baʊs, baʊz/

Bouses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in bouses (beossu).

Definitions for bouses

noun

1. liquor or drink.
2. a drinking bout; carouse.

verb (used with object)

1. to haul with tackle.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to drink, especially to excess.

Origin of bouses

First recorded in 1585-95; of uncertain origin

Examples for bouses

The wandering beggar says "skimish" for drink, but city beggars say "bouse."

Booze, or bouse, is supposed to come from the Dutch buysen, though the word has been in use in England for some hundreds of years.