Talk:bozo

I've removed the following uncited, poorly written and possibly dubious additions to the etymology section pending verification and discussion about their reliability. Thryduulf 13:29, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

• After Bozo the Clown, a clown character very popular in the USA in the 1950s
• First used in USA English as a vocative, from Spanish vosotros = "you": compare Wikipedia:Buster#Etymology.
• After Anselm of Canterbury's usage of the early continental European Germanic-origin personal name Boso.

Sources

• https://books.google.com/books?id=F-d2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=bozo

64.175.40.8 04:30, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bozo

• First Known Use: 1916

64.175.40.8 04:34, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

• http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Competitive-eating-champ-Eddie-Bozo-Miller-dies-3231109.php

64.175.40.8 04:40, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

• James Curtis "Battling Bozo" Hambright (1909 - 1980), boxer

• http://boxrec.com/es/boxer/21877
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58276650

• Al "Bozo" Costantino

• http://www.josportsinc.com/catalog/view.php?id=19753

64.175.40.8 04:50, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

• https://books.google.com/books?id=YuUjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT236&lpg=PT236&dq=bozo+palooka

64.175.40.8 04:56, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

• https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/where-does-bozo-come-from-lets-not-clown-around/

64.175.40.8 05:06, 21 September 2017 (UTC)