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say it: BAHZ-wel
boswell is a noun meaning "Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)". It is pronounced /ˈbɑzwɛl/ — BAHZ-wel. It carries 2 recorded senses.
Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)
a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boswell come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.