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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!" cried Bob, who did not believe much in sentiment, 'flummery' he termed it. "Much more likely he's an old cart-horse, and is as well accustomed to the row of the railroad as he is to the plough, and that's the reason he took no notice of us as we dashed by. ...

— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... to interpret the meaning of the word "Warn" as applied to "NIPUL." The alphabet was given again, and we got the word "BOSH." ...

— The Diary of a Nobody • George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith

... bosh. If he has hold of something that can't be got into a letter he hasn't hold of THE thing. Vereker's own statement to me was exactly that the 'figure' WOULD fit into ...

— The Figure in the Carpet • Henry James

... that highly-specialised form of skilled labor which consists in giving artistic coherence to a story that you have conceived roughly for yourself. A literary gentleman once hoisted a theory that there are only thirty-six possible stories in the world. This—I say it with no deference at all—is bosh. There are as many possible stories in the world as there are microbes in the well-lined shelves of a literary gentleman's "den." On the other hand, it is perfectly true that only a baker's dozen of these have got themselves told. The ...

— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm

... voice is, Sybil! Bosh! who cares for such double-dealing wretches, who flatter us before our faces and abuse us behind our backs?" exclaimed Beatrix, as she quickly finished her Puritan ...

— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

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