different between boose vs oose

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *b?s (attested in b?sih, b?sig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie, bind”).

Alternative forms

• boosy, boosey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

boose (plural booses)

1. (dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).

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Etymology 2

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

boose

1. Alternative spelling of booze
   • 1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles"

     'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;
     And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.

   • 1922, James Joyce, "Ulysses" Episode 8.

     Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.

Verb

boose (third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed)

1. Alternative spelling of booze

Anagrams

• Booes, OOBEs, oboes

English

Etymology 1

From Scots oose, an alternative form of oos, the plural form of oo (“wool”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /u?s/, /u?z/
• (Scotland, General American) IPA^(key): /uz/, /us/

Noun

oose (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) Fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-0-241-14241-7; 1st US edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-101348-7; page 100:

     But I found how I could read in the bedroom and not lie on the bed. It was a wee place down between my bed and the wall where the door was. The bed was pressed against the wall but ye could just squash down and under. My da kept all suitcases under my bed but I shifted them the gether and it was easy to squash in. But when I came out it was all fluff and oose stuff down my pyjamas. My maw was shouting. Oh Kieron it is filfy it is just filfy.

Etymology 2

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Noun

oose

2. (US) Synonym of yucca.

Etymology 3

Verb

oose (third-person singular simple present ooses, present participle oosing, simple past and past participle oosed)

1. Archaic form of ooze.

Related terms

• oosy

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /us/, /uz/

Noun

oose

1. Alternative form of oos
2. fluff