bosh

bosh
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {baloney},
         {boloney}, {bilgewater}, {bosh}, {drool}, {humbug},
         {taradiddle}, {tarradiddle}, {tommyrot}, {tosh}, {twaddle}]
    

Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough
   stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught,
   sketch.]
   Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]
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Bosh \Bosh\, n. [Turk.]
   Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]
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Bosh \Bosh\, n.; pl. {Boshes}. [Cf. G. b["o]schung a slope.]
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   1. One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast
      furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of
      the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
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   2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes
      inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
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   3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and
      ingots are cooled.
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "bosh":
      balderdash, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah,
      blatherskite, bop, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap,
      eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup,
      hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery,
      jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot,
      rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind