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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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Bosie was a blushing boy-toy undergraduate at Oxford's Magdalen College--ripe for the fame, fortune, and free meals in tony restaurants that Oscar offered.
Wilde times at Oxford: this spire-filled college town was the ... by Kelly, Gretchen / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
So, when Oscar neglects his family to cavort with Bosie and rent boys, we hear Fry's voice on the soundtrack reading those sections of the story about selfishness.
Wilde by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
As played by Jude Law, whose voluptuous beauty and mocking, boyish petulance gives him a rock star's presence, Bosie Douglas is seen bewitching Wilde from their very first meeting.
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