Question 1

What does "bosse" mean in French?

Accepted Answer

Swelling, tumor on a bony area, caused by a shock or bruise.
Protrusion of the back or chest, caused by the deviation of the spine or sternum.
Natural protuberance on the back of some animals.
Any elevation on a surface.
Defect in cutting caused when it is too fat, consisting of the appearance of an area raised above the worked surface.
Wheat disease also known as smut.
Rounded eminence seen on the surface of flat bones.
Fire bump or simply bump, large glass bottle, filled with powder, with several hanging and lit wicks, and thrown with a rope, so that, breaking in its fall, the wicks ignite the powder.
External convexities used for ornamentation.
Place on the wall, on the side of the grid, which returns the ball inside.
Small boss left in a facing to indicate that it is not measured.
Appendage placed under the iron intended to remedy alignment defects; it is a variety of crampon.
End of rope, used to join separated parts, or to grasp ropes and other things.
Part of the flattening tools in a forge.
Model formed of a figure or a portion of a figure molded in plaster.
Bundles of thistles for the use of the fuller.
First appearance of the new wood of a deer, which has shed the old one.
Spherical shape that the glassblower gives to the glass.
Pig disease also known as bristle.
In maritime slang, party or debauchery.
Protuberance at certain points of the skull, considered as indicating some of the fundamental faculties of the brain.
Part of a curve, which passes from a positive derivative (representation of growth), to a negative derivative (representation of decay), passing through a maximum.
Barrel used to store salt.

Question 2

What is the plural of the French word "bosse"?

Accepted Answer

bosses

Question 3

What words are antonyms of the French word "bosse"?

Accepted Answer

cavité
creux
trou
creux

Question 4

Where does the French word "bosse" come from?

Accepted Answer

in Low Latin bocia, bocium, from an ancient root found in German butze, butzen, 'something blunt, obtuse' and Flemish butse, 'bump', as well as Celtic (see Breton bos, bosen, 'pestilential tumor' and Welsh, bôth 'tumor').

Question 5

What words are synonyms of the French word "bosse"?

Accepted Answer

blessure
protubérance
cyphose
gibbosité
butte
aptitude
convexité
inégalité
irrégularité

Question 6

What is the translation of "bosse" into italian?

Accepted Answer

gobba

Question 7

How to translate "bosse" into english?

Accepted Answer

bump

Question 8

How do you say "bosse" in spanish?

Accepted Answer

joroba

bosse

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