bosh

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You should not swallow all that theosophical bosh which is based on nothing There's the Bible," went on Godfrey, "which tells us the same thing, that we live eternally Then we must always have lived, since eternity is a circle Why not, Isobel?

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  1. noun Nonsense.
  2. interjection Used to express disbelief or annoyance.

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  1. Turkish boş, empty.

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  1. Prob. from French ébauche (cf. debosh and debauch), a sketch, from Old French *esboche = Spanish esbozo = Portuguese esboço = Italian sbozzo (also, with different prefix, abbozzo), a sketch; with verb, French ébaucher, from Old French esbaucher, esbocher = Portuguese esboçar= Italian sbozzare (also abbozzare, sketch), from prefix s-, es-, Latin ex-, out, + bozza, a rough draft, a blotch, swelling, = French bosse, later English boss, q. v. Cf. Old Dutch boetse, bootse, a sketch, Dutch boetseren, mold, emboss, of same ult. origin.
  2. from bosh, n.
  3. from Turkish bosh, empty, vain, useless, futile, void of meaning: a word adopted into English use from Morier's novel “Ayesha” (1834), in which it frequently occurs in its Turkish sense: as, “this firman is bosh—nothing.”
  4. See boshes.
 

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