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▪ I. boozing, vbl. n.|ˈbuːzɪŋ|
[f. booze v. + -ing1.]
Deep drinking, toping.
a1529[see bousing vbl. n.] 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. iv. (1858) 207 That club and coffee-house boozing. 1868Geo. Eliot F. Holt 119 Extension of the suffrage can never mean anything for them but extension of boozing.
b. attrib. and in comb. (Cf. bousing.)
1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) I. 45 In a boozing-bout, such as some country gentlemen I could mention do hold after dinner. 1873C. Reade Simpleton xxviii, Down a filthy close into some boozing ken—I beg pardon, some thieves' public-house.
▪ II. ˈboozing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That drinks deeply, addicted to drinking.
1569[see bousing ppl. a.] 1770Month. Rev. 73 The boozing companions of old Sir John. 1880J. C. Watt Gt. Novelists 30 Those ‘boosing’ coteries. 1882L. Stephen Swift ii. 26 The boozing fox-hunting squires. |