Citations:bousing ken
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English citations of bousing ken, bousing-ken, bouzing-ken, bouzing ken, bowsing ken, and bowsing-ken
Noun: "a pub; a public house; a tavern"
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- 1607–10, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, act 5, scene 1:
- My doxy stays for me in a bousing ken, brave captain.
- 1621, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Gypsies:
- Captaine, if ever at the bouzing Ken, / You have in drops of Darby drill'd your men;
- 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2, scene 1:
- Sir, I can lay my function by. / And talk as wild and wantonly / As Tom, or Tib, or Jack, or Jill, / When they at bowsing ken do swill.
- 1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, act 2, scene 1:
- When last in conference at the bouzing-ken, / This other day we sat about our dead prince, / Of famous memory, (rest go with his rags!)
- 1715, Edward Ward, “Little Britain”, in A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms: or, A Guide to Good Fellows[1], page 44:
- Else virtuous Sam, that is of Soaks no Novice, / Would never make this Bouzing-ken his Office,
- 1798 December, “Feast of Wit; or, Sportsman's Hall”, in The Sporting Magazine[2], St. Giles's Greek, page 164:
- The prize was valued at one hundred and fifty pounds, till the diamonds faded into glass, and the gold transmuted into Dutch-leaf and lead! the cull (by their contrivance) remained at the bowsing ken, cocking his organ, and tempering his fogus with a few flagges of crank and white-tape, till the flashmen had an opportunity for piking.
- 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter XXXII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman[3], revised edition, volume 2, Henry Colburn (Colburn's Modern Novelists), published 1835, page 302:
- "Zounds, Bess!" cried the tallest of them, "what cull's this? Is this a bowsing ken for every cove to shove his trunk in?"