different between booze vs boozy

English

Etymology

Alteration of bowse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo?oz, IPA^(key): /bu?z/

• Homophone: boos

• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage.
   • 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars:

     She got caught between the shadows and the booze

     And she surely did know how to have the blues

2. (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Synonyms

• grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

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See also

• piss
• plonk

Verb

booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)

1. (slang) To drink alcohol.
   • 1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life

     This is better than boozing in public houses.

Translations

English

Etymology

From booze +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu?zi/
• Rhymes: -u?zi

Adjective

boozy (comparative boozier, superlative booziest)

1. (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.
2. (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
3. (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.

   We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.

4. (of food) Containing or cooked with alcohol.

   For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated by alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (inclined to consume alcohol): drunk, sottish
• (involving large consumption of alcohol):
• (containing alcohol): See Thesaurus:alcoholic

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