bowsing ken

See also: bowsing-ken

English

Noun

bowsing ken (plural bowsing kens)

  1. Alternative spelling of bousing ken
    • 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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bousing ken.
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