[f. BOOZE v. + -ING1.] Deep drinking, toping.
a. 1529. [see BOUSING vbl. sb.]
1851. Thackeray, Eng. Hum., iv. (1858), 207. That club and coffee-house boozing.
1868. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, 119. Extension of the suffrage can never mean anything for them but extension of boozing.
b. attrib. and in comb. (Cf. BOUSING.)
1824–9. Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), I. 45. In a boozing-bout, such as some country gentlemen I could mention do hold after dinner.
1873. C. Reade, Simpleton, xxviii. Down a filthy close into some boozing ken—I beg pardon, some thieves’ public-house.
