bousing ken
See also: bousing-ken
English
Alternative forms
- bousing-ken, bouzing-ken, bouzing ken, bowsing ken, bowsing-ken
Noun
bousing ken (plural bousing kens)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pub; a public house; a tavern.
- 1607–10, Middleton, Thomas; Dekker, Thomas, The Roaring Girl, Act 5, Scene 1:
- My doxy stays for me in a bousing ken, brave captain.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bousing ken.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:pub
Derived terms
- boozing ken, boozing-ken
References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “bousing ken”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 171.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 1, pages 308–309