boozingn.
/ˈbuːzɪŋ/ Deep drinking, toping.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun]
overdrinkeOE
drinkingc1200
excessc1386
bibbinga1400
bollingc1540
boozingc1540
bousingc1540
swillingc1563
tippling1567
carousing1582
swinking1590
bezzling1598
swill1602
swink1611
overdrinking1616
popination1623
sottishness1648
fuddling1665
toping1668
bibbership1670
abuse1732
dram-drinking1772
dramminga1790
potation1808
spree1811
muzzling1828
bibbery1831
Bacchanalianism1855
Bacchanalism1858
smiling1858
bibulation1882
tanking1891
reeler1950
c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 446 Howe they jest and ioll..With bowsinge and bollinge.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iv. 203 That club and coffee-house boozing.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 Extension of the suffrage can never mean anything for them but extension of boozing.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations. (Cf. bousing n.)
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1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xii. 156 In a boozing-bout, such as some country-gentlemen I could mention do hold after dinner.
1873 C. Reade Simpleton xxviii Down a filthy close into some boozing ken—I beg pardon, some thieves' public-house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
boozingadj.
That drinks deeply, addicted to drinking.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking
drunkensomea1300
drunkelew1362
drunksomec1475
drunken1548
boozing1569
boozy1592
bousy1592
moisty1593
unsober1611
upsy-friesy1617
moist1619
sottish1632
swilling1633
bibacious1663
intemperate1680
swill-bellied1680
swill-down1693
wet1699
potative1737
compotatory1817
alcoholic1845
drinking1856
bibulous1861
on the drink1865
1569 G. Turberville Epit. & Sonn. (1837) 331 As Circes cup no sooner might the bowsing Greekes beguile.
1770 Month. Rev. 73 The boozing companions of old Sir John.
1880 J. C. Watt Great Novelists 30 Those ‘boosing’ coteries.
1882 L. Stephen Swift ii. 26 The boozing fox-hunting squires.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.c1540adj.1569