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Bosse

Bosse proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Bosse (plural Bosses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Bosse

pluralBosses

Origin of Bosse

Various origins: * Borrowed from French Bosse or Bossé, a nickname for a hunchback, from bosse (“bump, hump”). * Borrowed from South German Bosse, a pet form of the personal name Burkhard. * Borrowed from Dutch Bosse, a variant of Bosch.

Questions about Bosse

What does Bosse mean?
Bosse means a surname.
What part of speech is Bosse?
Bosse is a proper noun.

Words near Bosse in the dictionary

  1. Bossart
  2. Bossarts
  3. bossas
  4. Bosschieter
  5. bossdom
  6. Bosse
  7. bossed
  8. bossed about
  9. bossed around
  10. bossed up
  11. bosselated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bosse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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