Bosset vs Bosser - What's the difference?
bosset | bosser |
(UK, dialect) A large marble.
* 1953 , Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine (volume 27, page 60)
* 1997 , Iona Archibald Opie, ?Peter Opie, Children's games with things (page 54)
As nouns the difference between bosset and bosser
is that bosset is (zoology) a rudimentary antler of a young male deer while bosser is water.bosser
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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