[Vwoolf] boss of the back
Jeremy Hawthorn
jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no
Wed Apr 22 08:43:47 EDT 2020
My colleague Laurence Davies, co-editor of Conrad's Collected Letters
and amazingly well informed about almost everything, writes this:
"Could boss mean the small of the back? According to the Scots Dialect
Dictionary (ed Alexander Warrock), the noun 'boss' can denote a hollow.
(The online OED records this usage as a Scoticism -- sense 10 -- but
records it as an adjective.)"
Did Woolf have anyone in her circle of friends who might make use a
Scottish expression / term?
This seems the most promising lead so far for the /Jacob's Room/ puzzle.
Jeremy H
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Jeremy Hawthorn
Emeritus Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
7491 Trondheim
Norway
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