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Definition of bosh in English: boshnoun bɒʃbɑʃ mass nouninformal Nonsense; rubbish. 废话连篇。 Example sentencesExamples - Despite his aversion to literary pretension, Parks has translated the Italian writer, who is more surely a purveyor of bosh than Rushdie ever will be.
- ‘Handshake Drugs’ is a meandering guitar ditty, with a shaggy-dog beat and some harmless piano bosh for window dressing.
- The thing is, the one day you bosh it, there could have been a really big promoter there and you have just kissed the dream goodbye.
- ‘We know how they are going to play - everything is big bosh - long throws everywhere, the ball just goes into the box.’
- She ridicules his pretensions and by extension the literary territory of the primitive exotic, pronouncing it all ‘pure artistic bosh and conceit’.
- Some say it is better than Milton - but that is all bosh - nothing can be better than Milton.
- That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people.
- As King said, ‘When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response which is little more than emotional bosh.’
- With such bosh was Mr. Robbins attempting to argue that President Bush went to war, with the help of Strauss-loving elites, merely to secure his re-election.
- All the hyperbole about how sacred the right to filibuster judges is is just bosh.
Synonyms prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling
OriginMid 19th century: from Turkish boş 'empty, worthless'. poppycock from mid 19th century: The English language has any number of curious words for ‘nonsense’, such as balderdash (late 16th century) of unknown origins, and codswallop, claptrap—first used in the modern sense by Lord Byron, and piffle (mid 19th century) from the sound. Poppycock was originally Dutch, and comes from pappekak, which meant either ‘soft dung’ or ‘doll's excrement’ Another such term is bosh, a Turkish word meaning ‘empty, worthless’ which was popularized by its frequent use in James Morier's highly successful 1834 novel Ayesha, the Maid of Kar.
Rhymesawash, Bosch, brioche, cloche, cohosh, cosh, dosh, Foch, galosh, gosh, josh, mosh, nosh, posh, quash, slosh, splosh, squash, swash, tosh, wash Definition of bosh in US English: boshnounbɑʃbäSH informal Something regarded as absurd; nonsense. 〈非正式〉胡说，瞎扯 I think it's a load of bosh 废话连篇。 as exclamation bosh! You don't want to go with us Example sentencesExamples - With such bosh was Mr. Robbins attempting to argue that President Bush went to war, with the help of Strauss-loving elites, merely to secure his re-election.
- That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people.
- ‘We know how they are going to play - everything is big bosh - long throws everywhere, the ball just goes into the box.’
- ‘Handshake Drugs’ is a meandering guitar ditty, with a shaggy-dog beat and some harmless piano bosh for window dressing.
- The thing is, the one day you bosh it, there could have been a really big promoter there and you have just kissed the dream goodbye.
- She ridicules his pretensions and by extension the literary territory of the primitive exotic, pronouncing it all ‘pure artistic bosh and conceit’.
- All the hyperbole about how sacred the right to filibuster judges is is just bosh.
- Despite his aversion to literary pretension, Parks has translated the Italian writer, who is more surely a purveyor of bosh than Rushdie ever will be.
- As King said, ‘When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response which is little more than emotional bosh.’
- Some say it is better than Milton - but that is all bosh - nothing can be better than Milton.
Synonyms prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling
OriginMid 19th century: from Turkish boş ‘empty, worthless’. |