different between booser vs boose

English

Etymology

boose +? -er

Noun

booser (plural boosers)

1. (obsolete) A boozer, toper, or guzzler.

Anagrams

• booers, broose

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *b?s (attested in b?sih, b?sig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie, bind”).

Alternative forms

• boosy, boosey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

boose (plural booses)

1. (dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

boose

1. Alternative spelling of booze
   • 1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles"

     'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;
     And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.

   • 1922, James Joyce, "Ulysses" Episode 8.

     Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.

Verb

boose (third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed)

1. Alternative spelling of booze

Anagrams

• Booes, OOBEs, oboes