Why do people use 'booze' referring to alcohol and who came up with that idea?

TabbyTom

“Booze” was originally a verb. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it probably comes from the medieval Dutch “busen” or the early modern Dutch “buizen,” both meaning “to drink to excess.” There was a German verb “bausen” with the same sense. Apparently the German word is probably derived from a root meaning “tumid” or “blown up”, while the Dutch probably comes from a word for a drinking vessel. In English the words seem to have been originally used by beggars and the criminal underworld, and then to have passed into slang and colloquial language. Dec 05 04, 5:54 PM

jbean

Another possibilty arises from the E.G. Booz Company, a bottlemaker in the US. Whiskey was once sold in these bottles, which had a log cabin shape with E G Booz embossed on the top. Dec 06 04, 5:57 PM

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