6 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
noun a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
adjective like a bower; leafy and shady
originUnexplained. Perhaps a topographic surname for someone who lived in a small cottage, from Middle English bour (“chamber, cottage”) or, alternatively, an occupational surname for someone who worked there.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0