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{
"boscage":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a growth of trees or shrubs : thicket":[]
},
"examples":[
"hidden from prying eyes by a leafy boscage , the cottage was the perfect trysting place"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English boskage, borrowed from Anglo-French boscage \"wood, woodland,\" from bois, bos \"grove, forest, wood (the material)\" (Old French also bosc ) + -age -age \u2014 more at boiserie":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4-skij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bosk",
"bosque",
"bosquet",
"brake",
"brushwood",
"chaparral",
"coppice",
"copse",
"covert",
"thicket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200923",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bosh":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": foolish talk or activity : nonsense":[
"\u2014 often used interjectionally"
]
},
"examples":[
"Don't believe a word she says\u2014it's all bosh .",
"a pseudoscientific examination of UFO claims that was utter bosh"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1829, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Turkish bo\u015f empty":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4sh"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175333",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bosk":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small wooded area":[]
},
"examples":[
"the thorny branches of the mesquite bosk provide quail and other desert birds with a safe haven from predators"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1815, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably back-formation from bosky":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4sk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"boscage",
"boskage",
"bosquet",
"brake",
"brushwood",
"chaparral",
"coppice",
"copse",
"covert",
"thicket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015703",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boskage":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a growth of trees or shrubs : thicket":[]
},
"examples":[
"hidden from prying eyes by a leafy boscage , the cottage was the perfect trysting place"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English boskage, borrowed from Anglo-French boscage \"wood, woodland,\" from bois, bos \"grove, forest, wood (the material)\" (Old French also bosc ) + -age -age \u2014 more at boiserie":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4-skij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bosk",
"bosque",
"bosquet",
"brake",
"brushwood",
"chaparral",
"coppice",
"copse",
"covert",
"thicket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073902",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bosom":{
"antonyms":[
"bower",
"circumfuse",
"cocoon",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enfold",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"involve",
"lap",
"mantle",
"muffle",
"shroud",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap"
],
"definitions":{
": close , intimate":[
"bosom friends"
],
": the chest conceived of as the seat of the emotions and intimate feelings":[
"a story you will take to your bosom"
],
": the human chest and especially the front part of the chest":[
"hugged the child to his bosom"
],
": the part of a garment that covers the chest or the breasts":[],
": the security and intimacy of or like that of being hugged to someone's bosom":[
"the bosom of her family"
],
": to enclose in or as if in an embrace":[
"a Gothic, moss-grown structure, half bosomed in trees",
"\u2014 T. L. Peacock"
],
": to enclose or carry in the bosom (see bosom entry 1 )":[
"she bosomed her letter",
"\u2014 E. P. O'Donnell"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He clutched the flowers to his bosom .",
"He never spoke of his childhood as an orphan, but kept dark memories of those days in his bosom .",
"The shirt has a plain color and ruffles at the bosom .",
"Verb",
"bosomed by overgrown shrubbery, the abandoned cottage seemed like the ideal place for an afternoon tryst",
"Adjective",
"promised to remain bosom friends for the rest of their lives",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Among her new additions to the Gaultier canon are a bondage suit, cut out at the bosom and buttocks, to reveal everything. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 9 May 2022",
"Think opera gloves, frilled hems, and bosom -boasting bodices reminiscent of the romantic aesthetics from the era. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Marie-Aurore de Saxe, a French noblewoman and freethinker, was painted in the guise of Diana, the huntress, wearing a leopard-print gown with billowing sleeves and a plunging bosom . \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Again, who would have guessed that a voting bloc still largely made up of thousands of middle-aged guys would not clutch a song about passing driver\u2019s ed to their collective bosom ",
"Her bosom to his waistcoat-less chest, her hips to his, their thighs mashed together. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Charles Lummis, a Harvard dropout and bosom buddy of Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s, had caught malaria in Ohio. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
"The version of Prince Andrew as the dashing war hero generating adoring headlines with insight from the bosom of the monarchy has been long-gone for many years. \u2014 Victoria Murphy, Town & Country , 12 Feb. 2022",
"That cynical strategy only intensifies antisemitic feelings against devout Jews who remain stubbornly unwilling to see the light and come to the bosom of Christ. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Schubert and the law enforcement agencies that fall under her jurisdiction appear to be bosom buddies. \u2014 Monique Judge, The Root , 15 May 2018",
"Jim Hamre and Zack Willhoite were also bosom buddies in their passion for public transportation who had excitedly awaited the day higher-speed trains could zip through their home turf. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Dec. 2017",
"That's when fans started sharing all the receipts proving that China and Dove are bosom buddies. \u2014 Noelle Devoe, Seventeen , 31 July 2017",
"The clip also features a bunch of behind-the-scenes footage, illustrating that Miguel and RL Grime are truly bosom buddies having the time of their lives. \u2014 Kat Bein, Billboard , 21 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"circa 1525, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English b\u014dsm ; akin to Old High German buosam bosom":"Noun",
"from attributive use of bosom entry 1":"Adjective",
"verbal derivative of bosom entry 1":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bu\u0307-z\u0259m",
"\u02c8bu\u0307z-\u0259m",
"also \u02c8b\u00fc-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"belly",
"blood",
"bone(s)",
"breast",
"core",
"gut",
"heart",
"heartstrings",
"inner space",
"inside",
"quick",
"soul"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055128",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bosque":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small wooded area":[]
},
"examples":[
"the thorny branches of the mesquite bosk provide quail and other desert birds with a safe haven from predators"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1815, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably back-formation from bosky":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4sk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"boscage",
"boskage",
"bosquet",
"brake",
"brushwood",
"chaparral",
"coppice",
"copse",
"covert",
"thicket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072301",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bosquet":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": thicket":[]
},
"examples":[
"a dense bosquet shields the trailhead from the bridle path"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1737, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, \"grove, thicket,\" going back to Middle French, probably borrowed from Old Occitan, from bosc \"forest, wood\" (going back to Germanic *boska-, *buska- \"shrub, thicket\") + -et -et entry 1 \u2014 more at bush entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4-sk\u0259t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"boscage",
"boskage",
"bosk",
"bosque",
"brake",
"brushwood",
"chaparral",
"coppice",
"copse",
"covert",
"thicket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090854",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boss":{
"antonyms":[
"captain",
"handle",
"head",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"quarterback",
"superintend",
"supervise"
],
"definitions":{
": a protuberant part or body":[
"a boss of granite",
"a boss on an animal's horn"
],
": a raised ornamentation (as on a belt or shield) : stud":[],
": a soft pad used in ceramics and glassmaking":[],
": an ornamental projecting block used in architecture":[],
": cow , calf":[],
": excellent , first-rate":[
"a boss new rock band"
],
": one who controls votes in a party organization or dictates appointments or legislative measures":[
"standing up to the party bosses"
],
": the hub of a propeller":[],
": to embellish (something, such as a belt or shield) with a raised decoration : to ornament with bosses (see boss entry 4 ) : emboss":[
"a bossed book cover"
],
": to exercise control or authority over : to act as boss (see boss entry 1 ) of":[
"need someone to boss that job"
],
": to give usually arbitrary orders to":[
"\u2014 usually used with around Quit bossing me around."
],
": to treat (something, such as the surface of porcelain) with a boss":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a boss new rock band",
"that's a really boss stereo you've got"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1c":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1653, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1790, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1836, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1856, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Dutch baas master":"Noun , Verb , and Adjective",
"English dialect, young cow":"Noun",
"Middle English boce , from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *bottia":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4s",
"\u02c8b\u022fs",
"\u02c8b\u00e4s, \u02c8b\u022fs"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"boss man",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"taskmaster"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054347",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"boss (around)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority that regional manager certainly likes to boss people around"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-070334",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boss man":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": boss entry 1":[]
},
"examples":[
"maybe we should ask the boss man how to handle this",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By now, the political capital has accepted Modi as the boss man . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Sep. 2019",
"Charles Aranguiz is the man that Manuel has spoken out about, with the boss man confirming that his fellow countryman, who plays for Bayer Leverkusen, turned down the chance of a London Stadium reunion. \u2014 SI.com , 24 June 2019",
"Trump likes to surround himself with people who adore him -- and don't mind speaking, sometimes at length, of their admiration and respect for the boss man . \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 15 May 2018",
"Charles Aranguiz is the man that Manuel has spoken out about, with the boss man confirming that his fellow countryman, who plays for Bayer Leverkusen, turned down the chance of a London Stadium reunion. \u2014 SI.com , 24 June 2019",
"Trump likes to surround himself with people who adore him -- and don't mind speaking, sometimes at length, of their admiration and respect for the boss man . \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 15 May 2018",
"When Trump holds a Cabinet meeting, Pence is there to lavish praise on the boss man . \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 10 May 2018",
"According to a Page Six source, SNL boss man Lorne Michaels had a talking to with Kanye, as did Kim Kardashian, who apparently had to leave her audience seat to talk to her husband. \u2014 Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan , 16 Feb. 2016"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"taskmaster"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165613",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bossy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": cow , calf":[],
": inclined to domineer : dictatorial":[],
": marked by a swelling or roundness":[],
": marked by bosses : studded":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1843, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1882, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"boss entry 6":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4-",
"\u02c8b\u022f-",
"\u02c8b\u022f-s\u0113",
"\u02c8b\u00e4-s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"authoritative",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"peremptory",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021814",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Bosporus":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"strait about 18 miles (29 kilometers) long between Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia connecting the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4-sp(\u0259-)r\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144014"
},
"Boswellia":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an important genus of incense-yielding trees (family Burseraceae) of northern Africa and India having triangular 3-celled fruit with winged seeds \u2014 see frankincense , salai":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"b\u00e4z\u02c8wel\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, perhaps from James Boswell \u20201795 + New Latin -ia":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200036"
},
"Bosporanic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": bosporan":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6b\u00e4sp\u0259\u00a6ranik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"bosporanic from Latin bosporan us + English -ic; bosporian from Greek bospori os of the Bosporus + English -an":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073500"
},
"boson":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a particle (such as a photon or meson) whose spin quantum number is zero or an integral number \u2014 compare fermion":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccz\u00e4n",
"\u02c8b\u014d-\u02ccs\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Following the discovery of the eponymous boson in 2012, the question became who among the Gang of Six should share the Nobel Prize, which can only go to a maximum of three joint recipients. \u2014 Andrew Crumey, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"In order to calculate the W boson \u2019s mass, physicists use the mass of the Higgs boson. \u2014 John Conway, The Conversation , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The standard model says a W boson should measure 80,357,000 electron volts, plus or minus six. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Meanwhile, theorists can\u2019t help but ponder what an oversize W boson might mean. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Additionally, theoretical physicists have been working on the W boson mass calculations for decades. \u2014 John Conway, The Conversation , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The Fermi team\u2019s scale put the W boson at a heftier 80,433,000 electron volts, plus or minus nine. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Enlarge / Experimental measurements and theoretical predictions for the W boson mass. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Satyendranath Bose \u20201974 Indian physicist + -on entry 2":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1947, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073815"
},
"Boswell":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a person who records in detail the life of a usually famous contemporary":[],
"James 1740\u20131795 Scottish biographer and diarist":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4z-\u02ccwel",
"-w\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"James Boswell":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1858, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135040"
},
"bostryx":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a cyme with all the flowers on one side of the rachis usually causing it to curl":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4striks"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, irregular from Greek bostrychos curl; akin to Old High German questa apron of leaves, Old Swedish kvaster, koster tuft, brush, Norwegian kvas small branches when cut off, Latin vespices thick shrubbery, Albanian (Gheg) ghethi leaf, Sanskrit gu\u1e63pita accumulation":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174733"
},
"Bostrychidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of small cylindrical beetles having a hoodlike thorax and boring both as larvae and adults in wood, stored products, and lead cables":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"b\u00e4\u02c8strik\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Bostrychus , type genus (from Greek bostrychos curl\u2014or, a winged insect) + -idae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180445"
},
"bosky":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having abundant trees or shrubs":[],
": of or relating to a woods":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00e4-sk\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The bracing peppermint beside the bosky chocolate is invigoratingly alpine. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Oct. 2021",
"In the picture\u2019s lower half, breasts, hair and nipple fold and swell in a bosky zone of shadow-casting shapes. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 May 2021",
"In a bosky corner of Blumenholz, the property that adjoins my family\u2019s Blumenhagen, lie six war graves from 1945: Germans, Russians, and one unknown. \u2014 Sigrid Macrae, Harper's Magazine , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Meanwhile, Pianon stayed away from the sea, well back in the bosky garden, made discreet evening visits to Noelline in her cinder-block house, and twice took her on weekend excursions to Mahajanga. \u2014 Andrea Lee, The New Yorker , 28 Dec. 2020",
"There\u2019s the prickling sense, reading Macfarlane like Dyer, that a library door or a manhole cover or a bosky path might lead you not just to the end of a chapter but to a drugs party or a rave. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 3 June 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"bosk, boske \"shrub, thicket\" (going back to Middle English bosk, boske, buske, by-forms of bussh, bosch ) + -y entry 1 \u2014 more at bush entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004251"
},
"bosun":{
"type":[],
"definitions":{
": a petty officer on a merchant ship having charge of hull maintenance and related work":[],
": a naval warrant officer in charge of the hull and all related equipment":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005937"
}
}