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"text": "Tho' hundreds cheer his blatant bosh,\nHe's but a goose for a' that.",
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"ref": "1884, George Gissing, chapter 17, in The Unclassed",
"text": "But you know very well you're talking bosh,\" exclaimed Abraham, somewhat discomfited. \"There must be government, and there must be order, say what you like.",
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"ref": "1912, Edwin L[egrand] Sabin, chapter VIII, in With Carson and Frémont",
"text": "Oliver saw Kit Carson wink at the lieutenant and Lucien Maxwell, as the speech reached them, and it was evident that these three leaders did not believe the Indian tales. Consequently he himself decided that the reports of \"evil spirits\" awaiting were all bosh.",
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"ref": "1904, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 1, in The Food of the Gods",
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"ref": "1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sins of Prince Saradine”, in The Innocence of Father Brown",
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"ref": "2001, rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet)",
"text": "It's a ~3 foot double lead with two 5-pin DIN plugs on one end and a big gameport-sized-n-shaped plug on the other. One end into the gameport, t'other plugs into the back of your keyboard. Bosh, job done.",
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"ref": "2001, uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet)",
"text": "My father registered with these people a few months ago, and all his calls dried up. He was also of the opinion that he shouldn't need to register not to be disturbed, and he's pretty ruthless on the 'phone when he wants to be . . . but eventually he grew tired of it . . . bosh. Job done.",
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"ref": "2003, uk.rec.cars.misc (Usenet)",
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"ref": "1996, Aidan Macfarlane, Magnus Macfarlane, Philip Robson, The user: the truth about drugs, what they do, how they feel, and why people take them",
"text": "We boshed two grams each of the beast 10, and then we went downstairs.",
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"ref": "2015, Oliver Merlin, Clapham High Way, page 188",
"text": "People want to make sure they are loaded up well before midnight. It's not like any other party where they might not turn up until eleven. They commence boshing pills straight away […]",
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"ref": "2017, Jon Boon, James Desborough, The Shamen rapper who sang \"Es are good\" has revealed he was high on drugs every time he did TOTP (in The Mirror newspaper)",
"text": "I wasn’t on three (e) pills, I was on 1. So, I remember it. It’s only when you bosh that third pill you start losing it, that’s not really how you take ecstasy. Kids do that, but it’s a bit foolish. Not that I’m saying I haven’t done that!"
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"ref": "1868, Shirley Brooks, For A' That And A' That",
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"ref": "2001, rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet)",
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"ref": "Patrick \"Pecker\" Dunne quoted in 2009, Mícheál Ó hAodha, Migrants and Memory: The Forgotten “Postcolonials” (page 53)",
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