Crossword clues for bosie
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
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.