bost

Possibly from bust or burst.

bost (third-person singular simple present bosts, present participle bosting, simple past and past participle bosted)

1. (UK dialect, Black Country) to break

• bostin

• 'bots, Bots., bots, stob

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Cardinal: bost     Ordinal: bosgarren     Multiplier: boskoitz     Distributive: bosna     Collective: boskote     Fractional: bosten

• bortz

From Proto-Basque *bortz (“five”). Often compared with Aquitanian *bors (“five”) and Iberian borste^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /bos̺t/ [bos̺t̪]

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• Rhymes: -os̺t
• Hyphenation: bost
• (casual speech) IPA^(key): /bos̺/

bost

1. five

• “bost”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
• “bost”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “bost” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

• boste, boost, booste

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bost, probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔːst/

bost (plural bosts)

1. brag, boast

• English: boast
• Scots: boast, bost
• Yola: boust

• “bōst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• The Black Country Slang Dictionary - Bost