Meaning of bosser | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bossy person, one who orders others around.
   rare
2. A large marble in children's games.
   UK, dialectal
3. An instrument used to push clay into a mold.

Equivalents

Examples

“They were all bossers here. Especially the women. They were bossy even when they deared her.”

“[…] 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.”

“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[…]”

CEFR level