bowsy

adj 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

left

VERB + BOWSY

knows

BOWSY + NOUN

poet

PREP.

off

adj

Obsolete spelling of boozy.

In his cups the bowsy poet sings.

noun

An unsavoury and unreliable (usually male) layabout.

—The mockery of it, he said contentedly, secondleg they should be. God knows what poxy bowsy left them off.

In his cups the bowsy poet sings.

Wiktionary

—The mockery of it, he said contentedly, secondleg they should be. God knows what poxy bowsy left them off.

Wiktionary

i Register

In some senses, bowsy is marked as obsolete, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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