/buːs/, /ˈbʉs/
OriginFrom Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).
- dialectalA stall for an animal (usually a cow).
“It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced.”
Formsbooses(plural) · boosy(alternative) · boosey(alternative) · Booses(plural)
Source: Wiktionary