bossie

B3O1S1S1I1E1

noun

A small bush.

OriginFrench Bossu →
RareScrabble 8
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

bossie1

nounbossie (plural bossies)

plural bossies

  1. South AfricaA small bush.

    We went on a walking adventure to find a farm gate by a big tree, with a key under a stone next to a bossie but the bushes all looked the same and we couldn't find the key.

    2013, Kate Shand, Boy, page 121

Bossie2

proper nounBossie (plural Bossies)

plural Bossies

  1. A surname from French.

Origin

  1. FrenchBossu
  2. EnglishBossie

Possibly a variant of French Bossu.

More words from French

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

bossie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bossie

MLA

“bossie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bossie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bossie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bossie.

Source: bossie on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.