[f. BOOZE sb. + -Y1.]
1. Showing the effects of boozing or intoxication; influenced or affected by much drinking.
a. 1529. [see BOUSY].
1719. DUrfey, Pills (1872), II. 297. All flustered and boozy, the drunken Old Sot.
1829. Southey, Ep. Annivers., 18. Leaving behind it in the boozy eyes A swoln and red suffusion, glazed and dim.
1857. Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, II. 237. Helplessly boozy from the first.
2. Addicted or given up to boozing; drunken.
1592. [see BOUSY].
1801. Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), III. 145. A tedious morning, a great dinner, a boozy afternoon, and dull evening.
1865. Sat. Rev., 4 Feb., 145/1. A boozy opium-eating Afghan.
Hence Booziness.
1863. Hawthorne, Old Home, II. 63. Poor Bozzys booziness would appear to have become hereditary in his ancient line.