Where does the word "Booze" come from?!
Where does the word "Booze" come from?
Answers: back in the day, drinking beer used to be called "boozing" and now they shortened boozing to booze to describe the actual drink. its lame but true :) It comes from the ancient Turkish-Persian word b?za which was a fermented drink made from barley (which is beer). Because after drinking it and singing karaoke at a bar, the audience will shower you with "boos." Etymologically speaking, the verb form comes from the Middle English (1300s: bouse) and the Dutch (busen: to drink heavily). Edmund Spenser described "boozing cans" in the 1590s, Benjamin Franklin was using "boozy" in the early 1700s, and Noah Webster included the word roots and their derivatives in his dictionary published in 1828.
There are apocryphal tales that the noun form--referring to the drink itself, and not the activity of drinking--was coined or reinforced by either Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booze in the 1850s, or by E.S. Booz of Kentucky, but this is under dispute. Although some cite E S Booze and his distilled liwuor, some feel it actually comes from the English verb bousen, "to drink deeply"