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noun

Bosh n. Figure; outline; show. (Obs.)

Bosh n. Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. (Colloq.)

Bosh n. (pl. boshes)

One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bosh" Quotes from Famous Books

... bosh, man. Go to hell! I paid my way. If I could only find out about octaves. Reduplication of personality. Who was it told me his name? (His lawnmower begins to purr) Aha, yes. Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... historical composition, it may be convenient to state briefly that Koom-Posh with the Vril-ya is the name for the government of the many, or the ascendency of the most ignorant or hollow, and may be loosely rendered Hollow-Bosh. When Koom-Posh degenerates from popular ignorance into the popular ferocity which precedes its decease, the name for that state of things is Glek-Nas; namely, the ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... great lovable patron saint, a refuge from all we abhorred in the harbor. To slight him was a sacrilege. But reverence to Joe Kramer was a thing unknown. "Show me," he said, in reply to my outburst, "a single thing he ever wrote that wasn't sentimental bosh!" And we went at ...

— The Harbor • Ernest Poole

... "Oh, bosh!" said Jack, getting up from his chair and striding about the room, with more irritation than he had ever shown to Edith before. ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... them. The horrors of Molokai are all poppycock. I can take you through any hospital or any slum in any of the great cities of the world and show you a thousand times worse horrors. The living death! The creatures that once were men! Bosh! You ought to see those living deaths racing horses on the Fourth of July. Some of them own boats. One has a gasoline launch. They have nothing to do but have a good time. Food, shelter, clothes, medical attendance, everything, is theirs. They are the wards of the Territory. They have a much ...

— The House of Pride • Jack London

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