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Is bosh a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bosh is a Scrabble US word. The word bosh is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

B3O1S1H4

Is bosh a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bosh is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

B3O1S1H4

Is bosh a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bosh is a Words With Friends word. The word bosh is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4O1S1H3

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4-letter words (3 found)

BOHS,BOSH,HOBS,

3-letter words (9 found)

BOH,BOS,HOB,HOS,OBS,OHS,SHO,SOB,SOH,

2-letter words (7 found)

BO,HO,OB,OH,OS,SH,SO,

You can make 19 words from bosh according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bosh

bosh obsh bsoh sboh osbh sobh bohs obhs bhos hbos ohbs hobs bsho sbho bhso hbso shbo hsbo oshb sohb ohsb hosb shob hsob

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bosh. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bosh.

Definitions and meaning of bosh

bosh

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɒʃ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bɑʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒʃ
  • Homophones: Boche, Bosch

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bosh (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly British) Nonsense.
Synonyms
  • blatherskite, hogwash, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

Interjection

bosh

  1. (chiefly British) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
Synonyms
  • fiddlesticks, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Etymology 2

Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen

Noun

bosh (plural boshes)

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

Etymology 3

Compare German Posse (“farce, burlesque”), Italian bozzo (“a rough stone”), bozzetto (“a rough sketch”).

Noun

bosh (plural boshes)

  1. (British, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
    to cut a bosh — "to make a figure"

Etymology 4

An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow.

Interjection

bosh

  1. (British) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.
Synonyms
  • bada bing bada boom, bammo, bingo, bish bash bosh, job done, that does it, there

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

bosh (third-person singular simple present boshes, present participle boshing, simple past and past participle boshed)

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs).
    • 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

bosh (plural boshes)

  1. A fiddle (musical instrument).
    • 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.
References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • BHOs, HBOS, hobs

Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş).

Adjective

bosh

  1. empty (devoid of content)

Antonyms

  • mbush

Related terms

  • boshllëk

Romani

Noun

bosh

  1. fiddle

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head”).

Noun

bosh (plural boshlar)

  1. (anatomy) head
  2. boss
  3. beginning

Declension


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