Definition of bowsie in English:
bowsie
nounPlural bowsiesˈbaʊziː
Irish A low-class or unruly person.
Example sentencesExamples
- Pull your highly paid bowsies into line, for it is they who give the bad example.
- McDowell has been dubbed ‘the Mad Mullah’ by some bowsies in the popular press, but he frequently had the aspect of the headmaster rather than the Allah-Wallah.
- Even tennis is becoming populated by the bowsie brigade who ‘cheer’ double faults.
- I like players committed and full blooded but I don't like bowsies.
- He probably felt that people would say he was the bowsie.
- A pity the beautiful game, enhanced by players like the above, is taking a trashing from the bowsies who, unfortunately, populate it, both on and off the field.
- He has left a trail of unwelcome headlines and a few bruises to boot, a roll model for borstal bowsies, certainly not juveniles who have not reached the age of selectivity but rather see him as a ‘star’ to be imitated.
- The Constitution provides that reports of ‘utterances’ are privileged - that is to say, the poor old Bert has no legal comeback no matter what those bowsies in the opposition say about him.
- Indeed, they seem to sub-scribe to the oft-held belief that there is no such thing as bad publicity and that their over-paid bowsies fuelling ticket and merchandise sales.
- There was unkind sniggering among opposition bowsies when the question of putting the Luas on stilts at the Red Cow roundabout came up.