bosse
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Noun
bosse
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French bosse. Compare Occitan bossa, Italian boccia and bozza; cf. also Romanian bot.
Noun
bosse f (plural bosses)
- bump (small elevated level)
- hump (of e.g. a camel or zebu)
- dent (in e.g. a car panel)
- (freestyle skiing) mogul
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See bosser.
Verb
bosse
- first-person singular present indicative of bosser
- third-person singular present indicative of bosser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bosser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of bosser
- second-person singular imperative of bosser
References
- “bosse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French boce. The spelling bosse (as opposed to boce) first appears circa 1389[1]
Noun
bosse f (plural bosses)
Descendants
- French: bosse
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)
Norman
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English bus.
Noun
bosse f (plural bosses)
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Verb
bosse
- to kiss
Synonyms
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