bosh

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɒʃ/ (General American) IPA(key): /bɑʃ/ Rhymes: -ɒʃ Homophones: Boche, Bosch === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier. ==== Noun ==== bosh (uncountable) (chiefly British) Nonsense. ===== Synonyms ===== blatherskite, hogwash, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense ==== Interjection ==== bosh (chiefly British) An expression of disbelief or annoyance. ===== Synonyms ===== fiddlesticks, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit === Etymology 2 === Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen ==== Noun ==== bosh (plural boshes) The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack. === Etymology 3 === Compare German Posse (“farce, burlesque”), Italian bozzo (“a rough stone”), bozzetto (“a rough sketch”). ==== Noun ==== bosh (plural boshes) (British, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure. to cut a bosh — "to make a figure" === Etymology 4 === An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow. ==== Interjection ==== bosh (British) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task. Synonyms: boom, bam, bang, bammo, bingo, bish bash bosh, bada bing bada boom, bingo bango; there, that does it Coordinate terms: Bob's your uncle, there you go, there you are === Etymology 5 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Verb ==== bosh (third-person singular simple present boshes, present participle boshing, simple past and past participle boshed) (UK, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs). 2017, Jon Boon, James Desborough, The Shamen rapper who sang "Es are good" has revealed he was high on drugs every time he did TOTP (in The Mirror newspaper) “I wasn’t on ​three​ (e) pills, I was on 1. So, I remember it. It’s only when you bosh that third pill you start losing it, that’s not really how you take ecstasy. Kids do that, but it’s a bit foolish. Not that I’m saying I haven’t done that!” === Etymology 6 === Of Romani usage. ==== Noun ==== bosh (plural boshes) A fiddle (musical instrument). Patrick "Pecker" Dunne quoted in 2009, Mícheál Ó hAodha, Migrants and Memory: The Forgotten “Postcolonials” (page 53) My father broke his bosh one night when he was in Waterford. ===== References ===== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary === Anagrams === BHOs, HBOS, hobs == Albanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş). === Pronunciation === === Adjective === bosh empty (devoid of content) ==== Antonyms ==== mbush ==== Related terms ==== boshllëk == Romani == === Noun === bosh fiddle == Uzbek == === Etymology === Inherited from Chagatai باش (bāš /⁠bāš⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɒʃ/ === Noun === bosh (plural boshlar) (anatomy) head boss beginning ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ====