different between bowser vs bosser

English

Etymology

From Bowser (“a surname”), after Sylvanus Bowser, US inventor of the first fuel pump; also a trade name of SF Bowser inc., the inventor's company.

Pronunciation

Noun

bowser (plural bowsers)

1. (now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
   • 2010, David Nichols, Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields, footnote citing 1926 report, page 309,

     The Moree Municipal Council decided to devote the revenue derived from the rent of the bowser petrol pumps within the municipality for this year, which amounted to forty guineas.

2. A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
   • 1962, The All England Law Reports, Volume 3, page 435,

     The bowsers then go out to the aircraft and supply them with petrol.
3. (Britain) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
   • 1999 May 12, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 588,

     Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as hon. Shidie has said, there is no water bowser in Garissa and he categorically said that there is a water bowser to supply water to the people of Kulan. Could he give the registration number of this water bowser which is supplying water to the people of Kulan?

   • 2010, P. Dissanayake, N. Weragala, V. Smakhtin, Environmental Flow Assessment: Recent Examples from Sri Lanka, Alexandra Evans, K. Jinapala (editors), Proceedings of the National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, Volume 2, page 29,

     Due to increasing levels of water pollution arising from low flows, water becomes unsuitable for bathing during this period and is satisfied by bowser water supply.

4. (Ireland, slang, used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bowers, bowers, bowres, browse

English

Etymology

boss +? -er?

Noun

bosser (plural bossers)

1. (Britain, 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 […]

Anagrams

• Bosers, Sobers, broses, sobers

Bavarian

Noun

bosser ?

1. (Sauris) water

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.se/

Etymology 1

bosse +? -er; cf. bossoir

Verb

bosser

1. (nautical) to raise an anchor over the davit(s)

Etymology 2

boss +? -er

Verb

bosser

1. (France, slang) to work (to do a task)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “bosser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brosse, brossé