Noun: boose
| Singular | boose |
| Plural | booses |
Sample Sentences
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It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced. [1854 July 15, Notes and Queries, number 246, page 50:]
Nouns inflected like boose
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). See: Middle English Nouns '
bose', Old English Nouns '
*bōs'.
Verbs referencing "boose"
English Nouns
bastard, English Nouns
caboose, Danish Nouns
bås.