boswell means A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
boswell is pronounced /ˈbɒzˌwɛl/.
Etymology
Scottish surname, from Norman, named after Beuzeville, from Beuze + -ville ("Bosi's farm"); first element from Old Norse Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.
name
- A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
- A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.; James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
- A place name:; A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).
- A place name:; A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
- A place name:; A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A place name:; A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
noun
- A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.“"I think that I had better go, Holmes."
"Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity to miss it."”