[f. BOOZE sb. + -Y1.]

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  1.  Showing the effects of boozing or intoxication; influenced or affected by much drinking.

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a. 1529.  [see BOUSY].

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills (1872), II. 297. All flustered and boozy, the drunken Old Sot.

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1829.  Southey, Ep. Annivers., 18. Leaving behind it in the boozy eyes A swoln and red suffusion, glazed and dim.

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1857.  Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, II. 237. Helplessly boozy from the first.

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  2.  Addicted or given up to boozing; drunken.

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1592.  [see BOUSY].

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1801.  Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), III. 145. A tedious morning, a great dinner, a boozy afternoon, and dull evening.

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1865.  Sat. Rev., 4 Feb., 145/1. A boozy opium-eating Afghan.

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  Hence Booziness.

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1863.  Hawthorne, Old Home, II. 63. Poor Bozzy’s booziness would appear to have become hereditary in his ancient line.

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