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booshway

booshway noun: the head man at the Fort Union trading post on the upper Missouri River at the confluence of the Yellowstone River, circa 1849.

Noun

booshway (plural booshways)

  1. (US, historical) The head man at the Fort Union trading post on the upper Missouri River at the confluence of the Yellowstone River, circa 1849.

Forms of booshway

pluralbooshways

Origin of booshway

See bourgeois.

Questions about booshway

What does booshway mean?
Booshway means the head man at the Fort Union trading post on the upper Missouri River at the confluence of the Yellowstone River, circa 1849.
What part of speech is booshway?
Booshway is a noun.
What is the plural of booshway?
The plural of booshway is booshways.

Words near booshway in the dictionary

  1. booses
  2. Boosey
  3. Booshehr
  4. booshit
  5. booshwa
  6. booshway
  7. booshways
  8. boosie
  9. Boosie Fade
  10. boosier
  11. boosies

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