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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