👉 Okay, settle into your ludicrous loafers and let’s tackle this little linguistic beast:
"Mபோசா."
(I’m spelling that out phonetically for the sake of posterity; honestly, I doubt you'll actually be saying that with any degree of accuracy unless you
wantably
to be a weirdo. Let's just say it’s… specific.)
Now, frankly, there isn't a universally agreed upon origin of "ભોસા," and the exact shade of its meaning shifts like a badly mixed béarnaise. Historically (and here I'm wading into some pretty uncomfortable territory—basically, 19th-century Indian brothel country, honestly), it referred to a kind of… designated woman who catered specifically to older men. Think a very carefully cultivated, almost religiously chaperoned hostess for guys past the flush of youth and looking for a certain... nostalgia, maybe? The word itself is loosely based on Gujarati, where, again historically, there were women who fulfilled that exact role. But, it was then taken up by the Bombay film industry – a place that practically invented outré slang and the dramatic depiction of illicit affairs. There, in the early 1960s (around when things started to get seriously weird with this word), "ભોસાં" became shorthand for a woman who was… let's just say she knew what she wanted and wasn’t afraid to go
