Brewer's: Bosky

On the verge of drunkenness. University slang, from bosko, to pasture, to feed. Everyone will remember how Sir John Falstaff made sack his meat and drink.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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