different between boozy vs booly

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

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• boley
• bolye
• booley
• bouillie

Etymology

Irish buaile (“cattle enclosure, summer pasturage for cows”), from Old Irish bó (“cow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu?li/

Noun

booly (plural boolies)

1. (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
2. (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.

   Synonyms: booley house, shieling

   • they are evermore succoured and finde releife only in these boolies, being upon the waste places

Anagrams

• Looby, looby