bosh

5 definitions found

bosh - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough
     stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught,
     sketch.]
     Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]
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  Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Turk.]
     Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]
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  Bosh \Bosh\, n.; pl. Boshes. [Cf. G. b["o]schung a slope.]
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     1. 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.
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     2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes
        inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
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     3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and
        ingots are cooled.
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bosh - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bosh
      n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
           boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
           taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]

bosh - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "bosh":
     balderdash, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah,
     blatherskite, bop, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap,
     eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup,
     hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery,
     jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot,
     rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind