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bosh

UK/bɒʃ/ US/bɑʃ/ uncommon archaic rare slang uk

noun

Origin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier.

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