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bona | bora |

As an adjective bona

is good.

As a noun bora is

a initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

bona

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Polari) .
  • * 1966 , Kenneth Horne, "Bona Tattoos" in: Round the Horne , series 2
    • SANDY: Oh, get him ! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces?
    JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see...
  • * 1997 , James Gardiner, Who's a pretty boy then? , page 137
    • Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
  • * 1997 , Ian Lucas, "The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" in: Anna Livia, Kira Hall (editors), Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality , page 90
    • Bona to vada you.
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    bora

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * Bora

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
    • Synonyms
    * burbung

    Quotations

    * 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 *: Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora . * 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14 *: By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora , at which youths are initiated to manhood...

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from a dialectal form of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 650:
    • When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

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