bouse
nounEtymology From Middle English bous (noun), bousen (verb), from Middle Dutch būsen, buisen, buysen (“to drink heavily”). Related to Middle High German būsen (“to swell, inblow”). More at beer.
1
Obsolete to drink, especially alcoholic drink
- Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 46:
2
Obsolete a carouse; a booze
- Six-and-twenty years of prison; the first seventeen years of it strict and hard, almost of the dungeon sort; the remainder, on his fairly abdicating, was in another Castle, that of Callundborg in the Island of Zealand, 'with fine apartments and conveniences,' and even 'a good bouse of liquor now and then,' at discretion of the old soul.1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, volume 1, Chapman and Hall, published 1873, page 192: