bosien.1
/ˈbəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈboʊzi/, Scottish English /ˈbozɪ/ Scottish colloquial (now chiefly north-eastern).
1. A person's bosom.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [noun] > bosom
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1737 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. IV. 196 Hush a Baba in a Bosie.
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 357 Syn' round you baith my nives to crook, Close to my bosy.
1850 J. Crawford Doric Lays 44 Teasin', pleasin', butterba', Wi' a bosie like the snaw.
1894 A. Reid Sangs Heatherland 41 Bairnie, cuddlin' in my bosie, Bonnie bairnie, sweet an' rosie.
1903 ‘J. M'Govan’ Hunted Down (new ed.) 297 Sing hymns and tuddle me till I seep in a bosie.
2009 E. Thom Tin-kin 105 We'd sit round singin,..me with the aither women,..each wi a bairnie or twa asleep at her bosie.
2. A cuddle; a hug.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun]
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1952 in Sc. National Dict. (1976) X. 377/3 [Aberdeenshire] Gie's a bosie.
1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 179 Karen, I just want a bosie.
2000 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 17 Apr. 4 Many parents feel unable to talk with a child who a few years earlier..cuddled up for a bosie.
2018 @elliesbeaton 19 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Currently want someone to come and give me a bosie.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bosien.2
/ˈbəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈboʊzi/, /ˈboʊsi/, Australian English /ˈboʊzi/ Australian.
= googly n. Also attributive, as bosie ball, bosie bowler, bosie bowling.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball
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1912 Australasian 2 Mar. 481/2 Then he lifted the ‘Bosie’ bowler high to the on.
1920 E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) ii. 74 The ‘googly’ or ‘Bosie ball’ as it was afterwards christened in Australia.
1927 Observer 13 Feb. 23/6 The finest exponent of ‘Bosie’ bowling in the world.
1930 C. V. Grimmett Getting Wickets i. 22 It was at this time that I learned to bowl the ‘bosie’ or ‘googly’—an off-break with a leg-break action.
1954 A. G. Moyes Austral. Batsmen xiv. 186 The changes in bowling style and tactics..from off~spin to speed, to ‘boseys’.
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