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- noun cricket, obsolete A
googly .
Etymologies
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Named after English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet who toured Australia for the 1903/4 summer. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 4, page 248.)
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Ya betta believe it. ac you keep you shark oil n lemme keep my cold, bosey. (cough, coughhhhhhh)
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Now here is a really British English word for you: bosie or bosey.
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