bosh

Etymology 1
Borrowed from. Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier.

Noun

 * 1)  Nonsense.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Etymology 2
Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen

Noun

 * 1) The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.

Etymology 3
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1)  A figure.
 * to cut a bosh — "to make a figure"

Etymology 4
An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow.

Interjection

 * 1)  An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.

Verb

 * 1)  To consume (illicit drugs).
 * 2) * 2017, Jon Boon, James Desborough, The Shamen rapper who sang "Es are good" has revealed he was high on drugs every time he did TOTP (in The Mirror newspaper)
 * “I wasn’t on ​three​ (e) pills, I was on 1. So, I remember it. It’s only when you bosh that third pill you start losing it, that’s not really how you take ecstasy. Kids do that, but it’s a bit foolish. Not that I’m saying I haven’t done that!”
 * 1) * 2017, Jon Boon, James Desborough, The Shamen rapper who sang "Es are good" has revealed he was high on drugs every time he did TOTP (in The Mirror newspaper)
 * “I wasn’t on ​three​ (e) pills, I was on 1. So, I remember it. It’s only when you bosh that third pill you start losing it, that’s not really how you take ecstasy. Kids do that, but it’s a bit foolish. Not that I’m saying I haven’t done that!”

Etymology 6
Of Romani usage.

Noun

 * 1) A fiddle musical instrument.
 * 2) * Patrick "Pecker" Dunne quoted in 2009, Mícheál Ó hAodha, Migrants and Memory: The Forgotten “Postcolonials” (page 53)
 * My father broke his bosh one night when he was in Waterford.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) empty (devoid of content)

Noun

 * 1) fiddle

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  head
 * 2) boss
 * 3) beginning