bosey

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bosey

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Named after English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet who toured Australia for the 1903/4 summer; + -y. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 4, page 248.)

noun boseys

obsolete A googly.

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@misc{bosey_2026,
  title = {bosey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bosey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}