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boss Name Meaning and History
- English: nickname for a hunchback, from Old French bossu ‘hunchbacked’ (a derivative of bosse ‘lump’, ‘hump’; compare Bossard 2).
- German: from a short form of the personal name Borkhardt, a variant of Burkhart.
- Possibly an altered spelling of South German Bös (see Bos).
- Danish: medieval variant of Buus, a surname of uncertain origin, perhaps from German busemen ‘devil’, ‘ghost’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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