Meaning of BOSH
| Pronunciation: | | bâsh
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| | Definition: | | [n] pretentious or silly talk or writing |
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| | Synonyms: | | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| | See Also: | | hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bosh\, n. [Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough
stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught,
sketch.]
Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]
\Bosh\, n. [Turk.]
Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]
\Bosh\, n.; pl. {Boshes}. [Cf. G. b["o]schung a slope.]
1. One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast
furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of
the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes
inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and
ingots are cooled.
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| | Related Terms: | | balderdash, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, blatherskite, bop, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind |
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