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▪ I. bouzy, boozy, a.1 Sc.|ˈbuːzɪ|
[? variant of bushy.]
bosky, bushy.
1807Hogg Mount. Bard 154 (Jam.) In a cottage, poor and nameless, By a little bouzy linn. a1810Rem. Nithsdale Song 67 A paukie cat..Wi' a bonnie bowsie tailie. 1808Jamieson s.v., A tree rich in foliage is said to have a boozy top.
▪ II. ˈbouzy, a.2 north. dial.
Also boozy, bowsy.
[Cf. Ger. baus, ‘swollenness, inflation’: see bouse v.1]
Big, bulky, corpulent.
1807J. Stagg Poems 62 Down his boozy burden fell. 1808Jamieson Dict., Bouzy-like, having the appearance of distension, or largeness of size. 1875F. K. Robinson Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bowzy, big-bellied.
▪ III. bouzy, -ie, a.3
obs. forms of bousy, sotted. |