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boshes

boshes is the plural of bosh.

Meaning of bosh

Noun (1)

bosh (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Nonsense.
    • Tho' hundreds cheer his blatant bosh,
      He's but a goose for a' that.1868, Shirley Brooks, For A' That And A' That

Noun (2)

bosh (plural boshes)

  1. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.

Noun (3)

bosh (plural boshes)

  1. (Norfolk, UK, archaic, slang) A figure.
    • to cut a bosh — "to make a figure"

Noun (4)

bosh (plural boshes)

  1. A fiddle (musical instrument).
    • My father broke his bosh one night when he was in Waterford.Patrick "Pecker" Dunne quoted in 2009, Mícheál Ó hAodha, Migrants and Memory: The Forgotten “Postcolonials” (page 53)

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Questions about boshes

What is boshes the plural of?
Boshes is the plural of bosh.

Words near boshes in the dictionary

  1. Boshells
  2. Bosher
  3. Boshers
  4. Bosherses
  5. Bosherston
  6. boshes
  7. Boshiamy
  8. boshing
  9. boshintang
  10. Boshoff
  11. boshter

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