bosser
See also: bòsser
English
Noun
bosser (plural bossers)
- (UK, dialect) A large marble in children's games.
- 1953, Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 27, page 60:
- […] the ultimate winner is the man with the greatest number of marbles when play comes to an end. The games at Battle at the present time are played with glass marbles and locally made “bossers” of concrete.
- 1997, Iona Archibald Opie; Peter Opie, Children's games with things, page 54:
- Modern children, having only machine-made glass marbles, are restricted to names describing their size, or the names under which they are sold, or fanciful names of their own inventing. Thus big marbles are big 'uns, bossers, bulls or bullies […]
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Bavarian
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ.se/
Conjugation
Conjugation of bosser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bosser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bossant /bɔ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bossé /bɔ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bosse /bɔs/ |
bosses /bɔs/ |
bosse /bɔs/ |
bossons /bɔ.sɔ̃/ |
bossez /bɔ.se/ |
bossent /bɔs/ |
| imperfect | bossais /bɔ.sɛ/ |
bossais /bɔ.sɛ/ |
bossait /bɔ.sɛ/ |
bossions /bɔ.sjɔ̃/ |
bossiez /bɔ.sje/ |
bossaient /bɔ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bossai /bɔ.se/ |
bossas /bɔ.sa/ |
bossa /bɔ.sa/ |
bossâmes /bɔ.sam/ |
bossâtes /bɔ.sat/ |
bossèrent /bɔ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | bosserai /bɔ.sʁe/ |
bosseras /bɔ.sʁa/ |
bossera /bɔ.sʁa/ |
bosserons /bɔ.sʁɔ̃/ |
bosserez /bɔ.sʁe/ |
bosseront /bɔ.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bosserais /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
bosserais /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
bosserait /bɔ.sʁɛ/ |
bosserions /bɔ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bosseriez /bɔ.sə.ʁje/ |
bosseraient /bɔ.sʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bosse /bɔs/ |
bosses /bɔs/ |
bosse /bɔs/ |
bossions /bɔ.sjɔ̃/ |
bossiez /bɔ.sje/ |
bossent /bɔs/ |
| imperfect2 | bossasse /bɔ.sas/ |
bossasses /bɔ.sas/ |
bossât /bɔ.sa/ |
bossassions /bɔ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
bossassiez /bɔ.sa.sje/ |
bossassent /bɔ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bosse /bɔs/ |
— | bossons /bɔ.sɔ̃/ |
bossez /bɔ.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “bosser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “bosser” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
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