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bosie

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Noun1.bosie - a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un
bowling - (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
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The volume contains 50 handwritten pages, including Wilde's earliest surviving letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he called Bosie, which documents the start of his doomed gay relationship with the Magdalen College undergraduate in the early 1890s, reports the Independent.
Wilde's earliest surviving letter to 'gay' lover found after 50 years by Asian News International
One celebrated British playwright, when pitching an Oscar Wilde biopic, was asked if he could make Bosie a girl.
So here's the story .. by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Who can forget Reginald Bosanquet whose cricketer father invented the googly (it's still called a Bosie after him in Australia); Alastair Stewart, a former deputy president of the National Union of Students; or Andrew Gardner, who expired a week after the last News At Ten broadcast?
And now for the news by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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