different between bouse vs fouse

English

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Alternative forms

• bowse

Verb

bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)

1. (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bous (noun), bousen (verb), from Middle Dutch b?sen, buisen, buysen (“to drink heavily”). Related to Middle High German b?sen (“to swell, inblow”). More at beer.

Noun

bouse (countable and uncountable, plural bouses)

1. (obsolete) drink, especially alcoholic drink
2. (obsolete) a carouse; a booze

Verb

bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)

1. (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.

   • you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Bueso

French

Etymology

From Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buz/

Noun

bouse f (plural bouses)

1. dung
2. (heraldry) water-bouget

Further reading

• “bouse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English fous, fus (“ready, eager, striving forward, inclined to, willing, prompt; ardent, zealous, passionate, expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, die”), from Old English f?s (“ready, eager, striving forward, inclined to, willing, prompt; expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, die; dying”), from Proto-Germanic *funsaz (“ready, eager”).

Adjective

fouse (comparative fouser or more fouse, superlative fousest or most fouse)

1. (obsolete) ready, eager, prompt, quick, striving forward, inclined to, willing
2. (obsolete) ardent, zealous, passionate, expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, die; dying

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.

Anagrams

• Sofue

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fou?s?]
• Hyphenation: fou?se

Noun

fouse

1. vocative singular of fous