boshn.1
/bɒʃ/, U.S. /bɑʃ/ 1. plural. In a blast furnace, the lower part of the shaft, sloping downwards from the belly, or widest part, to the hearth.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > flues or parts of flues
boshes1686
worm1758
throat vent1839
take-down1850
baffler1861
trunnel-hole1868
velvet tree1875
baffle1881
throat1919
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 162 Where these oblique walls terminat, which they term the boshes.
1864 Q. Jrnl. Sci. 1 492 The body and boshes being made of distinct truncated cones.
2. ‘A trough in which bloomary tools (or, in copper-smelting, hot ingots) are cooled.’ Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881.
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 110 Bosh, a trough in which bloomary tools (or, in copper-smelting, hot ingots) are cooled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† boshn.2
/bɒʃ/, U.S. /bɑʃ/ Obsolete.
An outline, rough sketch. Hence (?) to cut a bosh: to make a figure, to make an imposing, swaggering appearance.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > something left incomplete
bosh1726
skeleton1796
torso1825
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlvi. 245 Who has handsomer tie-wigs, or more fashionable cloaths, or cuts a bolder bosh than Tom Paroquet?
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlvi. 247 Laughing at everybody..that does not cut as bold a bosh as they do.
1751 ‘T. Whistle’ Let. 3 May in Student 2 No. 8. 287 A man who has learn’d but the bosh of argument, that has only seen the shadow of a syllogism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boshn.3
/bɒʃ/, U.S. /bɑʃ/ slang or colloquial.
1. Contemptible nonsense, ‘stuff’; trash; foolish talk or opinions.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1834 J. Morier Ayesha I. 219 This firman is bosh—nothing.
1834 J. Morier Ayesha I. 283 The parts [of the Koran] which are taken from the Christian Bible are divine; [the other parts] are spurious. They are bosh—nothing.]
1850 P. Crook War of Hats 19 Some nameless bosh—seduction—or crim. con.
1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate xii. 212 Don't talk bosh out of your books.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 157 And [were] pure bosh and wind.
1885 Illustr. London News 23 May 539/2 I can write something that is not bosh.
2. int. Stuff and nonsense! Humbug!
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1850 C. Kingsley Let. 31 May in Life & Works (1902) VII. 28 Theirs is now discovered not to be a necessary trade. Bosh! The question is this—[etc.].
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxi. 209 Bosh! It's all correct.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 243 Bosh, what's my head running against!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
boshn.4
slang.
A fiddle.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > fiddle
fiddlec1275
trunk-wame16..
crowda1627
bosh1876
1876 W. Green & C. Hindley Life & Adventures Cheap Jack 231 Can you rocker Romanie, Can you fake a bosh?
Compounds
bosh-faker n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler
fiddlera1100
gigoura1300
minikin tickler1607
scraper1611
gut-vexer1640
rosin-the-bow1767
fiddle1773
scrape-gut1837
bosh-man1846
bosh-faker1859
bosh-killer1935
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 10 Bosh, a fiddle. Bosh-Faker, a violin player.
bosh-killer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler
fiddlera1100
gigoura1300
minikin tickler1607
scraper1611
gut-vexer1640
rosin-the-bow1767
fiddle1773
scrape-gut1837
bosh-man1846
bosh-faker1859
bosh-killer1935
1935 X. Petulengro Romany Life xxxiii. 119 Rudy and Adolphus were the bosh-killers (we spoke English Romany now); I played the melodeon.
bosh-man n. one who plays a fiddle.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler
fiddlera1100
gigoura1300
minikin tickler1607
scraper1611
gut-vexer1640
rosin-the-bow1767
fiddle1773
scrape-gut1837
bosh-man1846
bosh-faker1859
bosh-killer1935
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 47 A boshman every Tuesday night for hopping and chaunting.
1865 F. H. Nixon Peter Perfume 102 ‘Boshman’ in the old-hand vernacular signifies a fiddler.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† boshv.1
Obsolete.
intransitive. To cut a dash; to make a show; to flaunt.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 71 When to the plain Garb of Gown and Band a Spark adds an inconsistent long Wig, we do not say now he Boshes, but there goes a Smart Fellow.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xxxiii. 180 Bosh it about town in lace ruffles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
boshv.2
/bɒʃ/, U.S. /bɑʃ/ slang.
transitive. To make of no effect; to spoil; to humbug.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally > impair the action or effectiveness of
maimc1395
appale?1530
embezzle1566
weaken1639
cripple1694
derange1776
enfeeble1860
bosh1870
dent1931
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > induce by deception > and humbug
fig1692
humbug1761
bother1803
gammon1821
hornswoggle1829
bosh1870
crap1928
1870 Macmillan's Mag. 21 71 You ‘bosh’ his [a man's] joke by refusing to laugh at it; you ‘bosh’ his chance of sleep by playing upon the cornet all night in the room next to him.
1883 M. E. Braddon Golden Calf xiv Boys would get on capitally with Jardine. They'd never try to bosh him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boshint.
/bɒʃ/, U.S. /bɑʃ/ British colloquial.
Indicating something which happens suddenly, quickly, or effortlessly. Cf. bish bosh int.2, bish-bash-bosh int. 2.
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1993 T. Hawkins Pepper ii. 39 Then it clicks. Bosh! like that. It's like cracking the headline when you're on the can.
2002 Observer 10 Nov. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 22/1 A good chocolate tart doesn't need anything more than a simple blob of crème fraîche to set it off. ‘Simple! Bosh! You taste it, and there it is! Chocolate shavings? A coulis? Nah, they just aren't me.’
2008 Esquire Mar. 114/2 We were second in the Christmas week charts, I got a very nice bonus and—bosh!—I was an A&R man.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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