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Buzz

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Empty the bottle. A corruption of bouse (to drink).

“In bousing a bout ʹtwas his gift to excel,

And of all jolly topers he bore off the bell.”

(See Boozy.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Buttons
Button-hole
Button-hole (A)
Buy in (To)
Buy Off (To)
Buy Out (To)
Buy Over (To)
Buy Up (To)
Buying a Pig in a Poke
Buzfuz (Serjeant)
Buzz
Buzz (A)
Buzzard (The)
By
By-and-by
Bygones
By-laws
By-road (A)
By-the-by
By-the-way
Byron