different between bosh vs sosh

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: Boche, Bosch

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bosh (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Britain) Nonsense.

Synonyms

• blatherskite, hogwash, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

Interjection

bosh

1. (chiefly Britain) 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. (Britain, 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. (Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.

Synonyms

• 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. (Britain, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs).
   • 1996, Aidan Macfarlane, Magnus Macfarlane, Philip Robson, The user: the truth about drugs, what they do, how they feel, and why people take them

     We boshed two grams each of the beast 10, and then we went downstairs.

   • 2015, Oliver Merlin, Clapham High Way (page 188)

     People want to make sure they are loaded up well before midnight. It's not like any other party where they might not turn up until eleven. They commence boshing pills straight away […]

   • 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

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• BHOs, HBOS, hobs

Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (bo?).

Adjective

bosh

1. empty (devoid of content)

Related terms

• boshllëk

Antonyms

• mbush

Romani

Noun

bosh

1. fiddle

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ba?? (“head”).

Noun

bosh (plural boshlar)

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

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /so??/

Etymology 1

Noun

sosh (plural soshes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.

   • In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh" short for Socialist.

   • This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh.” The teeth-baring sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.

   • Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department […] “Sosh,” as the academic department was called […]

   • In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election […]

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.
   1. (slang) A social security number.

      • He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh." His social security number.

Etymology 2

Short for association store.

Noun

sosh (plural soshes)

1. (Scotland, slang) A co-op.

   • Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh," was back in a moment with a handful of small change.
     Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.

   • An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.

   • Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.

   • In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]”

References

• Joseph Wright, editor (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume R-S, page 625

  (Entry on sosh, including verbal and adverbial meanings.)

Anagrams

• Hoss, Sohs, hoss, shos, sohs