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boozing ken en · NOUN

Etymology

Alteration of bousing ken.

Meanings

1. (British, archaic, slang) A pub; a public house; a tavern.
   • We straight betook our selves to the Boozing Ken; and having bubb'd nimly, we concluded an everlasting friendship. 1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 54:
   • The Ruffler, who found his representative in a very magnificently equipped, and by no means ill-favoured knave, whose chin was decorated with a beard as lengthy and as black as Sultan Mahmood's, together with the dexterous Hooker, issued forth from the hovel which they termed their boozing ken, eager to catch a glimpse of the Prince of the High Toby Gloaks. 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, pages 303–304:

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pub