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bosting

bosting is the alternative form of bostin.

bosting is the present participle and gerund of bost.

Meaning of bostin

Adjective

bostin (comparative more bostin, superlative most bostin)

  1. (West-Midlands) great, excellent
    • Ar, that's bostin, ar kid!
  2. (East-Midlands, West-Midlands) bursting
    • I shouldn’t have drunk so much, I’m bostin for the loo!

See all 3 meanings of bostin

Meaning of bost

Verb

bost (third-person singular simple present bosts, present participle bosting, simple past and past participle bosted)

  1. (East-Midlands, UK, dialectal, Black Country) To break.

Forms of bosting

comparativemore bosting
superlativemost bosting

Questions about bosting

What is bosting the alternative form of?
Bosting is the alternative form of bostin.

Words near bosting in the dictionary

  1. Bostic
  2. Bostick
  3. Bosticks
  4. bostin
  5. bostin'
  6. bosting
  7. Bostobrick
  8. bostock
  9. Bostock Green
  10. bostocks
  11. Bostocks Creek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bosting (page history and authors); bostin (page history and authors); bost (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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