booze

booze
\ \ [13] This word seems to have been borrowed on two distinct and widely separate occasions from Middle Dutch būsendrink much alcohol’ (which some have connected with Middle High German būsswelling’). In the 13th century this gave Middle English bouse, which if it had continued to the present day would have rhymed with the verb house.
\ \ However, in the 16th century the Middle Dutch word was reborrowed, giving modern English booze.

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