Definitions
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- noun a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
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Examples
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Texas, you should be ashamed for making an example out of him. bosie Says:
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Holding up the bottle while covering her head is super lame. bosie Says:
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No bosie, it doesn't make sense putting ourselves in the poor house to put on a good show for the Americans.
Global Voices in English » Caribbean: 5th Summit Begins 2009
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Noo nestle in his bosie, sleep and dream yer fill,
The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children Various 1889
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Eventually Duminy gloved a snorter from Hilfenhaus and as the soup was served so Paul Harris tugged a bosie to mid-on.
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The bosie was invented by a Bosanquet, a Huguenot, of course.
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Now here is a really British English word for you: bosie or bosey.
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The Australians were so amazed by this ball that bounced the wrong way when it was pitched, that they called it a bosie, and still do.
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I don’t know, but I hate video and song.bleeeh. bosie Says:
bilby commented on the word bosie
Doric - cuddle.
March 21, 2010
sionnach commented on the word bosie
That's what got Oscar into trouble, a little too much of that Doric cuddling with Bosie, if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge ....
March 21, 2010