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▪ I. bosh, n.1|bɒʃ|
[Origin unknown; senses 1 and 2 may be of distinct derivation. Sense 1 has been compared with Ger. böschen to slope. The plur. form is due to the fact that blast-furnaces were formerly of square section, and the ‘boshes’ were the four sloping walls of the lower portion.]
1. pl. In a blast-furnace, the lower part of the shaft, sloping downwards from the belly, or widest part, to the hearth.
1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 162 Where these oblique walls terminat, which they term the boshes. 1864Q. Jrnl. Science I. 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.
▪ II. † bosh, n.2 Obs.|bɒʃ|
[Origin unknown: perhaps a corruption of F. ébauche outline, rough-hewn figure.]
An outline, rough sketch. Hence (?) to cut a bosh: to make a figure, to make an imposing, swaggering appearance.
1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xlvi. 245 Who has handsomer tie-wigs, or more fashionable cloaths, or cuts a bolder bosh than Tom Paroquet? Ibid. 247 Laughing at everybody..that does not cut as bold a bosh as they do. 1751Student II. 287 A man who has learned but the bosh of an argument, that has only seen the shadow of a syllogism.
▪ III. bosh, n.3 slang or colloq.|bɒʃ|
[a. Turk. bosh empty, worthless; the word became current in Eng. from its frequent occurrence in Morier's novel Ayesha (1834), which was extremely popular, especially in the ‘Standard Novels’ edition 1846.]
1. Contemptible nonsense, ‘stuff’; trash; foolish talk or opinions.
[1834Morier Ayesha I. 219 This firman is bosh—nothing. Ibid. 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. ]1850P. Crook War of Hats 19 Some nameless bosh—seduction—or crim. con. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. (1878) 174 And were pure bosh and wind. 1864C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate xii. 212 Don't talk bosh out of your books. 1885Illustr. Lond. News 23 May 539/2, I can write something that is not bosh.
2. int. Stuff and nonsense! Humbug!
1850C. 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.]. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxi, Bosh! It's all correct. Ibid. xxiv, Bosh, what's my head running against!
▪ IV. bosh, n.4 slang.
[ad. Romany bosh- to crow, fiddle, etc., a. Skr. vāś-to low, bellow.]
A fiddle. Comb.: bosh-faker, -killer, -man, one who plays a fiddle.
1846Swell's Night Guide 47 A boshman every Tuesday night for hopping and chaunting. 1859Hotten Dict. Slang, Bosh, a fiddle. Bosh-Faker, a violin player. 1865F. H. Nixon Peter Perfume 102 ‘Boshman’ in the old-hand vernacular signifies a fiddler. 1876W. Green Cheap Jack 231 Can you rocker Romanie, Can you fake a bosh? 1935X. Petulengro Romany Life xxxiii. 119 Rudy and Adolphus were the bosh-killers (we spoke English Romany now); I played the melodeon.
▪ V. † bosh, v.1 Obs.
[f. bosh n.2]
intr. To cut a dash; to make a show; to flaunt.
1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 71 ⁋8 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. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xxxiii. 180 Bosh it about town in lace ruffles.
▪ VI. bosh, v.2 slang.|bɒʃ|
[f. bosh n.3]
trans. To make of no effect; to spoil; to humbug.
1870Macm. Mag. XXI. 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. 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf xiv, Boys would get on capitally with Jardine. They'd never try to bosh him.
▪ VII. bosh
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