Bosh

//bɒʃ// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    An expression of disbelief or annoyance. British

    ""Bosh!" said the Vicar, rejecting the hint altogether."

  2. 2
    An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task. British

    "It's a ~3 foot double lead with two 5-pin DIN plugs on one end and a big gameport-sized-n-shaped plug on the other. One end into the gameport, t'other plugs into the back of your keyboard. Bosh, job done."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname rare
Noun
  1. 1
    Nonsense. British, uncountable

    "Tho' hundreds cheer his blatant bosh, He's but a goose for a' that."

  2. 2
    The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
  3. 3
    A figure. British, Norfolk, archaic, slang

    "to cut a bosh — "to make a figure""

  4. 4
    A fiddle (musical instrument).

    "My father broke his bosh one night when he was in Waterford."

  5. 5
    pretentious or silly talk or writing wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To consume (illicit drugs). UK, slang, transitive

    "We boshed two grams each of the beast 10, and then we went downstairs."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow.

Etymology 6

Of Romani usage.

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