Meaning

4 senses

  1. (UK, uncountable)Nonsense.

  2. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.

  3. A fiddle (musical instrument).

  4. (Norfolk, UK, archaic, slang)A figure.

    to cut a bosh — "to make a figure"

More definitions
  • pretentious or silly talk or writing

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Bish bash bosh, we managed it.

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  2. He said only one word: "Bosh!"

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Origin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in Eng

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier.

Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen

Compare German Posse (“farce, burlesque”), Italian bozzo (“a rough stone”), bozzetto (“a rough sketch”).

Borrowed from Romani bosh.

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Forms

plural: boshes
Singularbosh

uncountable

Synonyms

13 synonyms
blatherskitehogwashmalarkey
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
borrowerborrowingborschtbosomboson
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