Synonyms for boozer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : booz |
| Phonetic Transcription : buz |
Définition of boozer
Origin :- by 1821, perhaps 1714; probably originally as a verb, "to drink a lot" (1768), variant of Middle English bouse (c.1300), from Middle Dutch busen "to drink heavily," related to Middle High German bus (intransitive) "to swell, inflate," of unknown origin. The noun reinforced by name of Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booze. Johnson's dictionary has rambooze "A drink made of wine, ale, eggs and sugar in winter time; or of wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c.World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo.
- noun drunkard
- I've had the fellow looked up and he hasn't any money and is a boozer besides.
- Extract from : « Poor White » by Sherwood Anderson
- Haven't you enough to do without wasting your time over a boozer?
- Extract from : « The Sweep Winner » by Nat Gould
- If yer mother'd bin a boozer, and yer father'd got the chuck.
- Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892 » by Various
- She must feel a greater contempt for them than the private-barmaid does for the boozer she cleans out.
- Extract from : « Children of the Bush » by Henry Lawson
- According to Mr. Boozer, his son-in-law, now living in Asotin, the location was made in 1866.
- Extract from : « Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by William Denison Lyman
- I always did say the more of a boozer a man is, the quicker hell take water.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Canyon Pass » by Thomas K. Holmes
- The boozer swung his back to the bar, hooked himself on by his elbows, and looked vacantly out of the door.
- Extract from : « While the Billy Boils » by Henry Lawson
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