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English

Noun

bos

1. plural of bo

Anagrams

• BSO, OBs, OSB, Obs, SOB, obs, sob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bos, from Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Noun

bos (plural bosse, diminutive bossie)

1. wood, forest
2. bush, shrub
3. bunch, bundle, sheaf, bouquet

Derived terms

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin vos. Cognate to Spanish os and French vous.

Pronoun

bos

1. you (second-person plural direct pronoun)
2. (to) you (second-person plural indirect pronoun)

Synonyms

• tos

Cornish

Alternative forms

• bones

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??z/

Verb

bos

1. to be

Conjugation

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bos]

Adverb

bos

1. (literary) barefoot, barefooted

Synonyms

• bosky

Related terms

• bosý

Further reading

• bos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• bos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

Possibly from Latin buxus (“box tree”).

Noun

bos m

1. oak tree

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

bos m

1. thigh, hind quarters

Danish

Noun

bos n

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

Dutch

Alternative forms

• bosch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/
• Hyphenation: bos
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

bos n (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. wood, forest

   Zij ging wandelen in de bossen.

   She went walking in the woods.

Noun

bos m (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. bouquet, cluster, bunch

   Hij bracht een bosje bloemen mee.

   He brought me a bouquet of flowers.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bos
• ? English: bush
  • ? Dutch: bush, bushbush
• ? Indonesian: bos

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek ????? (púxos).

Noun

bos m (plural bos)

1. box (tree)
2. boxwood

Galician

Adjective

bos

1. masculine plural of bo

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vos. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bo.

Pronoun

bos

1. you (plural second person)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?s]
• Hyphenation: bos

Etymology 1

From Dutch bos (“cluster, bunch”), from Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun

bos (first-person possessive bosku, second-person possessive bosmu, third-person possessive bosnya)

1. cluster, bunch.

Etymology 2

From English boss, from Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic *baswô, masculine form of Proto-Germanic *basw? (“father's sister, aunt, cousin”). Cognate with Middle Low German b?s (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”) (> Saterland Frisian Boas (“boss”)), Old High German basa ("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base (“aunt, cousin”)).

Noun

bos (plural bos-bos, first-person possessive bosku, second-person possessive bosmu, third-person possessive bosnya)

1. boss, leader, head.

Further reading

• “bos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Alternative forms

• bas

Etymology

From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”), from Proto-Celtic *bost? (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?osto-, *g?osd?o- (“branch”).

Noun

bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)

1. (anatomy) palm of the hand

   Synonym: dearna

2. (hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley

Declension

• Dual: dhá bhois

Mutation

References

• "bos" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Kristang

Etymology

From Portuguese vós (“ye”), from Old Portuguese vos, from Latin v?s (“ye”).

Pronoun

bos

1. you; thou (second-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

References

Ladino

Noun

bos f (Latin spelling, plural bozes)

1. Alternative form of boz

Latin

Etymology

Irregular, for the expected **v?s/**?s, accusative **vom, oblique stem **vov-, from Proto-Italic *g??s, from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws, which also gave Ancient Greek ???? (boûs), Sanskrit ?? (go) (nominative singular gaú?), and English cow.

Most likely a borrowing from Sabellic (Oscan-Umbrian), attested as Umbrian bum (acc.sg.), bue (abl.sg.), buo (gen.pl.), buf (acc.pl.) all spelling /b?-/. This was likely motivated by the fact that the expected form would have produced an undesirable homonymic clash: with v?s (“you”) in the nominative and with ovis (“sheep”) in the oblique. It's unclear whether the borrowing included the entire paradigm, or just the initial consonant.

Alternative forms

• bovis, bus (rare)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bo?s/, [bo?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bos/, [b?s]

Noun

b?s m or f (irregular, genitive bovis); third declension

1. a cow, bull, or ox
2. (in the plural) cattle (bovine animals)

Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular).

• The medial /v/ is often found spelled B, normally not spelled in the form boum, and is sometimes lost in the forms bo(v)e and bo(v)?s.
• The dative/ablative plural forms are normally found as b?bus, more rarely as b?bus, and very rarely as bovibus.
• The genitive plural is twice boverum.
• The ablative singular is once the archaizing bov?d in an inscription.

Synonyms

• cornigera pl
• iumentum (when used to pull carts); armentum (when used to pull plows)

Hypernyms

• iumenta (when used to pull carts); armenta (when used to pull plows)

Hyponyms

• taurus m
• vacca f

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “b?s” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “b?s”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 74

Further reading

• bos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “On Latin b?s”, in laohutiger.wordpress.com?^[1], 2012-01-02, retrieved 2021-06-16

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• boss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?s/

Noun

bos n (definite singular boset, uncountable)

1. garbage, rubbish, waste
2. straw for or from a strawbed

Further reading

• “bos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bansaz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to bind”). Cognates include Old English *b?s, Old Saxon *b?s and Old Norse báss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?s/

Noun

b?s m

1. stall, byre

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Buus
• West Frisian: bús

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• vos

Etymology

From Latin v?s, from Proto-Italic *w?s, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *y?? (“you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Pronoun

bos (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonym: bois, bosateros

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bô?s/

Adjective

b?s (definite b?s?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. barefoot

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bó?s/, /b??s/

Adjective

b?s or bòs (not comparable)

1. barefoot

Inflection

Further reading

• “bos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

bos

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

Verb

bos

1. infinitive passive of bo.
2. present tense passive of bo.

Synonyms

• bebos

Anagrams

• obs

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English boss

Noun

bos

1. boss; overseer; master

Synonyms

• masta

Related terms

• bosim

Volapük

Pronoun

bos

1. something

Declension

English

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??ld?.dæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

balderdash (uncountable)

1. Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
   • 1765, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, London, for the author, Volume I, “TO THE RIGHT RESPECTABLE MY Ancient and well-beloved PATRON THE PUBLIC,” p. xix,^[1]

     Where, you cried in the name of Wonder, have you been able to gather together such an old fashioned Bundlement of Scientific Balderdash?

   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.” in Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 10, December 1844, p. 720,^[2]

     [He] has the audacity to demand of us, for this twattle, a ‘speedy insertion and prompt pay.’ We neither insert nor purchase any stuff of the sort. There can be no doubt, however, that he would meet with a ready sale for all the balderdash he can scribble, at the office of either the ‘Rowdy-Dow,’ the ‘Lollipop,’ or the ‘Goosetherumfoodle.’

   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Chapter 7,^[3]

     Charles Gould assumed that if the appearance of listening to deplorable balderdash must form part of the price he had to pay for being left unmolested, the obligation of uttering balderdash personally was by no means included in the bargain.

   • 1992 April 26, "Hot Off the Press" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 5:

     A. Fink-Nottle: But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorrah, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean?
     B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.

2. (archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
   • 1637, John Taylor, Drinke and Welcome, London: Anne Griffin, “Beere,”^[4]

     Indeede Beere, by a Mixture of Wine, it enjoyes approbation amongst some few (that hardly understand wherefore) but then it is no longer Beere, but hath lost both Name and Nature, and is called Balderdash (an Utopian denomination) [...]

   • 1783, John O’Keeffe, The Agreeable Surprise, Newry: R. Stevenson, Act I, Scene 1, pp. 6-7,^[5]

     [...] I took him to oblige a foolish old friend of mine, who intended him for Saint Omers; so I must keep him to draw good wine, and brew balderdash Latin.

3. (obsolete) Obscene language or writing.
   • 1776, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson & J. Bew, Volume 4, Chapter 72, p. 46,^[6]

     Trugge, therefore, (who has a foul mouth of his own, when he pleases) talked balderdash to Mrs. Sudberry, through the key-hole, which she did not answer, for, indeed, she seems a civil spoken woman, truly [...]

   • 1795, Richard Cumberland, Henry, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 42,^[7]

     With me your work will be easy and your life happy, with him you will be a drudge and the lacquey of a drudge [...]: from me you will hear none but pious and edifying conversation; from them nothing but balderdash and blasphemy in an outlandish dialect [...]

Synonyms

• bunk, drivel, folderol, piffle, poppycock, rubbish, twaddle
• see Thesaurus:nonsense

Translations

Verb

balderdash (third-person singular simple present balderdashes, present participle balderdashing, simple past and past participle balderdashed)

1. (archaic) To mix or adulterate.
   • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, London: R. Baldwin, 2nd edition, Volume I, Letter 19, p. 309,^[8]

     That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.

References