Meaning of boozing ken | Babel Free

Definitions

A pub; a public house; a tavern.

British, archaic, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“We straight betook our selves to the Boozing Ken; and having bubb'd nimly, we concluded an everlasting friendship.”

“The Ruffler, who found his representative in a very magnificently equipped, and by no means ill-favoured knave, whose chin was decorated with a beard as lengthy and as black as Sultan Mahmood's, together with the dexterous Hooker, issued forth from the hovel which they termed their boozing ken, eager to catch a glimpse of the Prince of the High Toby Gloaks.”

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