bosh

Other forms of bosh

plural

boshes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bosh

What does bosh mean?

bosh means "pretentious or silly talk or writing".

How many syllables are in bosh?

bosh has 1 syllable: bosh. In IPA it is /ˈbɑʃ/.

What is another word for bosh?

Close synonyms include baloney, boloney, bilgewater, drool, humbug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bosh a common word?

bosh is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.