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▪ I. ‖ bosch1
(properly bɔs, usually bɔʃ)
Also bosh.
[Du. bosch a wood, bush.]
Used by the Dutch settlers in South Africa, and thence in comb., as: bosch-bok, an antelope of South Africa, the Bush-buck; bosch-man = Bushman (the word used in Holland, however, is boschjesman); bosch-vark, a species of wild pig in South Africa.
1786tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape G.H. 271, I saw and gave chase to the bosch-bok. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. 76 The boschbok oft would bound away. Ibid. iii. 161 The boschvark, or wood-swine. 1854H. Miller Footpr. Creat. ix. (1874) 156 The degraded boschmen of creation.
▪ II. bosch2, bosh|bɒʃ|
[In full, bosch butter, i.e. artificial butter manufactured at 'sHertogenbosch or ‘Bosch’ (Bois-le-duc) in Holland.]
An imitation of butter, otherwise called butterine, usually consisting of oleomargarine with a small proportion of genuine butter. Also bosch butter.
1879Echo 7 Apr. 3/4 It was known in the trade by the name of ‘bosh’. 1880Daily News 26 Feb. 5/2 Oleomargarine..is generally sold in this country under the name of ‘butterine’, but it is also known commercially by the more expressive term ‘bosch’. |