See also: Bosse, bossé, bøsse, and boße

Afrikaans

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Noun

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bosse

  1. plural of bos

Franco-Provençal

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buttia.

Noun

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bosse m (plural bosses) (ORB, broad)

  1. barrel

References

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  • tonneau in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • bosse in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French bosse. Compare Occitan bòssa, Italian boccia and bozza; cf. also Romanian bot.

Noun

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bosse f (plural bosses)

  1. bump (small elevated level)
  2. hump (of e.g. a camel or zebu)
  3. dent (in e.g. a car panel)
  4. (freestyle skiing) mogul
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Etymology 2

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See bosser.

Verb

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bosse

  1. inflection of bosser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French boce. The spelling bosse (as opposed to boce) first appears circa 1389[1]

Noun

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bosse f (plural bosses)

  1. swelling; bump (for example due to injury or illness)

Descendants

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  • French: bosse

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)
  1. ^ bosse on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French), subsection 'formes'

Norman

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Etymology

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From English bus.

Noun

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bosse f (plural bosses)

  1. (Guernsey) bus

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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Compare German busseln.

Verb

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bosse

  1. to kiss

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