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Josser vs Bosser - What's the difference?

josser | bosser |

As nouns the difference between josser and bosser

is that josser is an outsider working in a circus while bosser is water.

josser

English

Noun

(wikipedia josser) (en noun)
  • An outsider working in a circus.
  • *{{quote-news, year=1999, date=May 20, author=Dea Birkett, title=Books: In the world of exotic humans , work=The Independent citation
    • , passage=Becoming a josser - an outsider who joins the circus - is probably one of the few dreams almost everyone has had.}}
  • * James Joyce, An Encounter
    • As I neither answered nor raised my eyes Mahony exclaimed again: "I say... He's a queer old josser !"

    bosser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A large marble.
  • * 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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