"bowsy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowsier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowsiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "bowsy (comparative bowsier, superlative bowsiest)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "boozy"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "In his cups the bowsy poet sings.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of boozy."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "boozy",
          "boozy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowsy"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Probably from above, from being applied to drunkards.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowsies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowsie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "bowsy (plural bowsies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
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        },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "—The mockery of it, he said contentedly, secondleg they should be. God knows what poxy bowsy left them off.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an unsavoury and unreliable (usually male) layabout."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "unsavoury",
          "unsavoury"
        ],
        [
          "unreliable",
          "unreliable"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "layabout",
          "layabout"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, colloquial) an unsavoury and unreliable (usually male) layabout."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gurrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "gouger"
        },
        {
          "word": "lout"
        },
        {
          "word": "scanger"
        },
        {
          "word": "ruffian"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowsy"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
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    "English nouns",
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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowsier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowsiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "boozy"
        }
      ],
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "In his cups the bowsy poet sings.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of boozy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boozy",
          "boozy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowsy"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Probably from above, from being applied to drunkards.",
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    {
      "form": "bowsies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowsie",
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      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "Irish English"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "—The mockery of it, he said contentedly, secondleg they should be. God knows what poxy bowsy left them off.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an unsavoury and unreliable (usually male) layabout."
      ],
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          "unsavoury"
        ],
        [
          "unreliable",
          "unreliable"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "layabout",
          "layabout"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, colloquial) an unsavoury and unreliable (usually male) layabout."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gurrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "gouger"
        },
        {
          "word": "lout"
        },
        {
          "word": "scanger"
        },
        {
          "word": "ruffian"
        }
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowsy"
}