5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Turk.] Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bosh \Bosh\, n.; pl. {Boshes}. [Cf. G. b["o]schung a slope.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part. [1913 Webster] 3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: bosh n : pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {baloney}, {boloney}, {bilgewater}, {drool}, {humbug}, {taradiddle}, {tarradiddle}, {tommyrot}, {tosh}, {twaddle}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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