BOSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bosh mean? 

• BOSH (noun)
  The noun BOSH has 1 sense:

1. pretentious or silly talk or writing

  Familiarity information: BOSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretentious or silly talk or writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle

Hypernyms ("bosh" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

 Context examples 

It was too far a cry from Martin Eden's high standard to that serious bosh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was Wolf Larsen’s last word, “bosh,” sceptical and invincible to the end.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It's all bosh.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Rot and bosh! That's what they told us when we were kids. But there is one thing they didn't tell us then. They let us find it out for ourselves afterwards."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)