Boswelln.
/ˈbɒzwɛl/ Used allusively for: a constant companion or attendant who witnesses and records what a person does.
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1857 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 48 Every man his own Boswell.
1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes i. 6 ‘I think that I had better go, Holmes.’ ‘Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.’
1932 N. Mitford Christmas Pudding iii. 41 I never thought of biography, but of course that's the very thing for me... May I be your Boswell, darling?
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