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English
Etymology
Expressive retriplication of bosh.
Interjection
bish bash bosh
- (British, informal) Indicating the completion of a task with efficiency.
2001 June 1, Gareth McLean, “I like your altitude”, in The Guardian:Throw in a love story early on and you're laughing. Write it up as a novel and, bish-bash-bosh, you've got the next Captain Corelli.
2007 August 8, Gerard O'Donovan, “Last night on television”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved October 14, 2008:So infectious was Jamie’s trademark bish bash bosh enthusiasm that it may actually have been counterproductive.
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Further reading
- Eric Partridge (2005) “bish, bash, bosh; bish-bash-bosh”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 164.