Etymology

bozal

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Today it means: A (black) slave recently brought to a (European, especially Spanish) colony from Africa. Full definition →

Spanish bozal
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed frombozal“recently-imported slave; noseband”
  2. English todaybozal

From Spanish bozal (“recently-imported slave; noseband”). Doublet of bossale and bosal.

Words from the same roots

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bozo

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