north. dial. Also boozy, bowsy. [Cf. Ger. baus, ‘swollenness, inflation’: see BOUSE v.1] Big, bulky, corpulent.
1807. J. Stagg, Poems, 62. Down his boozy burden fell.
1808. Jamieson, Dict., Bouzy-like, having the appearance of distension, or largeness of size.
1875. F. K. Robinson, Whitby Gloss. (E. D. S.), Bowzy, big-bellied.
Bouzy, -ie a.3 obs. forms of BOUSY, sotted.
