Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A popular Egyptian drink, made by boiling millet-seed in water and fermenting the infusion, adding afterward certain astringent substances.
- noun An inebriating mixture of darnel-meal, hempseed, and water.
- noun A preparation of honey and tamarinds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
bosa .
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Examples
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“it's like they took the left over milk from your bowl of coco puffs and mass produced it....seriously, when i even hear the word boza i wanna yak.”
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The other fine point of boza is that to love Bulgaria, which I have grown to, is to love boza.
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“George Vaflington says drinking boza is like drinking a warm glass of rubber cement without all the headaches and demons.”
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The first is that boza is widely believed to enlarge breasts size.
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You make think that I am making this up, but I have been told on many of occasions that when I go back to America I must take back a crate of boza with me.
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Now that I have drunk my last drop of boza ever, I find myself able to reflect on the finer points of the drink.
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It has been five years since I had this job and I had not smelled anything close to that until I opened a bottle of boza.
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Az obicam mac i boza : i love football and boza a thick thick wheat drink
A Letter to the Students at da Vinci Arts Middle School Eric Wiley 2005
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Az obicam mac i boza : i love football and boza a thick thick wheat drink
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There is also the clown's dance, generally executed at entertainments after the mead or _boza_ has worked sufficiently on the brain to produce
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
hernesheir commented on the word boza
One for the listers of fermented drinks.
December 21, 2012
bilby commented on the word boza
I've also seen it written as bouza.
December 21, 2012