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 Booth.Bor (in Norfolk) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Boozy.
 
Partly intoxicated. (Russian, busa, millet-beer; Latin, buza, from buo, to fill; Welsh, bozi; Old Dutch, buyzen, to tipple; Coptic, bouza, intoxicating drink.)   1
        “In Egypt there is a beer called ‘Boozer,’ which is intoxicating.”—Morning Chronicle, Aug. 27th, 1852.
 


 Booth.Bor (in Norfolk) 

 
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