boshyadj.
/ˈbɒʃi/ Of the nature of bosh; contemptible, worthless.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]
tooma1250
beggarly1526
trumpery1576
balductum1577
skimble-skamble1598
nonsense1621
warbling1621
flim-flam1631
nonsensical1645
unsensical1692
fiddlecome1697
waffling1698
mataeological1716
flummery1749
water-gruelish1788
slip-sloppish1797
twaddling1804
twaddle1830
twaddly1841
fee-faw-fumish1846
poppycock1852
boshy1860
twaddlesome1865
moonshiny1880
cockalorum1881
tommyrotic1894
crappy1928
ballsy1942
farkakte1960
1860 J. M. Atkinson Let. 6 May in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. x. 577 The concentration of ‘boshy’ gossip in town is wearisome.
1864 B. Harte & ‘M. Twain’ Sketches of Sixties (1927) ii. 132 I read your boshy criticisms on the opera with the most exquisite anguish.
1882 ‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versâ iv There was no dancing, only boshy games and a conjuror.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
<
adj.1860