From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).
Meanings
(dialectal) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced. 1854 July 15, Notes and Queries, number 246, page 50:
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boose en · NOUN · etymology 2
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/buːz/
Etymology
From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).
Meanings
(alt-of, alternative) 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.
Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny? 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman: