bosser.
to work, labour, do a day's work
Meaning & usage
to work, labour, do a day's work
Toute la journée il bosse, et pour que dalle.
to train (for something), work on (something), study, improve (on something)
Je dois encore bosser (sur) mon solfège ce weekend.
Va bosser tes maths au lieu de jouer aux jeux vidéos!
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1878. Probably from bosse + -er (see below) with some sort of semantic shift. It has been suggested that in western France, the verb came to mean "to bend over for work"; alternately, that sailors raising an anchor was considered typical "hard work", or that the word came from the sense of "to emboss" and was originally cant used by artisans.
to emboss
to dent; to cause a dent
to raise an anchor over the davit(s)
Where this word comes from
From bosse + -er; compare bossoir.
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