subs. phr. (old cant).—A farmhouse: cf. bos = OX + KEN, a house.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 472. Up at a BOSKEN (farm-house) they’ll get among the servant girls.
subs. phr. (old cant).—A farmhouse: cf. bos = OX + KEN, a house.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 472. Up at a BOSKEN (farm-house) they’ll get among the servant girls.
