Word: bosh
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Augenleiden was translated "eye lids;" sie werden es schwerlich finden, "you 'll find her pretty heavy;" ach, gnadiger Herr Professor, "Ah! bosh! Professor!"; wurde in daszweite Stock-werk geschickt, "was placed in the second position," "was sent on the second errand," "would go the second of next month," "had departed on the second steamer," "intended to wait on the second step," and "happened to be the next substitute;" Wer staubt hier im Zimmer ab? "Who stops here in the summer?"; sie hatte sich verrathen, "she was married;" er streckte die Linke nach den Briefen aus, "he placed his left hand...
...ridiculous position. After administering a sound drubbing, a very sound drubbing indeed, to the University of Pennsylvania, on account of its unfortunate challenge, the writer of the article was seemingly unable to close without making a few flings at Harvard and Yale. He blandly states: "If all the bosh that has been written about the aquatic deeds and words of Harvard and Yale could be collected together, it would be enough to ballast a railroad to the moon, with sufficient left to fill in the Newark Meadows. We frankly acknowledge that the aquatically inclined students of Yale and Harvard-individually...
...demon that has crept into the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, and at present edits the exchange column of the Niagara Index, reaches for the Crimson in the following style: "A vein of lovesick, sentimental bosh permeates the Crimson's pages. But as we have never been in love, and don't anticipate any such fatality, our censure is excusable." Poor fellow, we really pity you! The unlucky author of "Specimen Bricks" next claims his attention: "We cannot say the idiot who is responsible for the above is a brick. This article may occasionally be found embedded...
...correct ki-bosh, you know, to talk so much, - aw, - I have four knaves," put in the hero of Zutphen...
That his listeners said it was bosh...