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bosie

n. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way [syn: googly, wrong 'un, bosie ball]

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Bosie

Bosie may mean:

  • Scottish slang for a hug.
  • an alternate name for New London Hall, Connecticut College's new science center.
  • a googly, a type of delivery in the game of cricket.
  • a nickname for Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wilde, addressed as such in Wilde's letter from prison, De Profundis.
  • a nickname for the Bösendorfer piano.

Usage examples of "bosie".

I think Oscar Wilde really liked his grooms and messenger boys better than he ever liked aristocratic Bosie.

Why, if dear Bosie were here, instead of indulging him-self so selfishly in Italy, he would write verses to you, ma'mselle - verses like purple blooms in a caliph's garden.