[ bɒʃ ]
■ noun ( the ~ ) informal, dated Germans, especially German soldiers, collectively.
Origin
from Fr. soldiers' sl., orig. in the sense 'rascal'; applied to Germans in the First World War.
[ bɒʃ ]
■ noun ( the ~ ) informal, dated Germans, especially German soldiers, collectively.
Origin
from Fr. soldiers' sl., orig. in the sense 'rascal'; applied to Germans in the First World War.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004