Synonyms of the word bosh


BOSHBALONEY - BILGEWATER - BOLONEY - BUNK - DROOL - HOKUM - HUMBUG - MEANINGLESSNESS - NONSENSE - NONSENSICALITY - TARADIDDLE - TARRADIDDLE - TOMMYROT - TOSH - TWADDLE

bosh

  • n. (chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
  • interj. (chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
  • n. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
  • n. (Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
  • interj. (Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.

baloney

  • n. (countable) A type of sausage; bologna.
  • n. (uncountable, chiefly US, slang) Nonsense.

bilgewater

  • n. (nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
  • n. (slang) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

boloney

  • n. Alternative form of bologna.
  • n. Alternative form of baloney.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

drool

  • v. to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.
  • v. to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice.
  • v. to talk nonsense.
  • n. saliva trickling from the mouth.

hokum

  • n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

humbug

  • n. (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
  • n. (countable, uncountable, slang) A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
  • n. (countable, slang) A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
  • n. (countable, Britain) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
  • n. (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding,…
  • n. (US, countable, African American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
  • n. (countable, US, African American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
  • n. (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
  • interj. (slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
  • v. (slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
  • v. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
  • v. (slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.

meaninglessness

  • n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
  • n. Anything that is meaningless.

nonsense

  • n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  • n. An untrue statement.
  • n. Something foolish.
  • n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
  • n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • v. To make nonsense of.
  • v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
  • adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
  • adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

  • n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
  • n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

taradiddle

  • n. Alternative form of tarradiddle.

tarradiddle

  • n. A trivial lie, a fib.
  • n. Silly talk or writing; humbug.

tommyrot

  • n. nonsense, rot.

tosh

  • n. (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper.
  • n. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains.
  • n. (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh,…
  • n. (Britain, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan.
  • n. (cricket, slang, pejorative, uncountable) Easy bowling.
  • n. (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
  • v. (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls.
  • v. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers.
  • v. (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath".
  • adj. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
  • adj. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
  • adj. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
  • adv. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily.
  • v. (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value.
  • n. (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage.

twaddle

  • n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
  • n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
  • v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

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