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Bonzer is a see also of bewdy.


As an adjective bonzer

is (australia) remarkable; wonderful.

As a noun bewdy is

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As an interjection bewdy is

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bonzer

English

Alternative forms

* boncer * bonza

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Australia) Remarkable; wonderful.
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  • * 1916 , , In Spadger?s Lane'', in ''The Moods of Ginger Mick , 2009, Sydney University Press, page 36,
    • To all the earth she gives the soft glad-eye; / She picks no fav?rits in this world o? men; / She peeps in nooks, where ?appy lovers sigh, / To make their joy more bonzer still; an? then, / O?er Spadger?s Lane she waves a podgy ?and, / An? turns the scowlin? slums to Fairyland.
  • * 1945 , Doglas Stewart (editor), Coast to Coast: Australian Stories 1945 , page 51,
    • By cripes, you couldn?t have a more bonzer place for doing the thing in style with girls.
  • * 1991 , Noel Virtue, Always the Islands of Memory , page 148,
    • Inside sat one of the most bonzer sights she?d ever seen.
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    • Synonyms

    * (remarkable) bottler, ripper

    External links

    * * Australian English Glossary from A to Zed - Travelogue * Australian words: Encyclopedia II - Australian words - Old, declining or expired slang

    Anagrams

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    bewdy

    English

    Noun

    (bewdies)
  • * 1933 , Blackwood's Magazine , Volume 233, page 350,
    • “Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”
  • * 1936 , The American Caravan , Volume 5, page 625,
    • This was bewdy .
  • * 2008 , Nage Archer, Slave Heart , page 189,
    • Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy , pretty as a rosella.
  • (Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
  • * 1987 , , John Larkin, Chipp , page 35,
    • The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It?s a bewdy .’
  • * 1993 , , The Lonely Hunter , page 15,
    • ‘Look at this bewdy .’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.
  • * 1997 , Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull , page 94,
    • But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.
  • * 2000 , , page 172,
    • ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don?t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’
  • * 2004 , Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings , page 97,
    • Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.

    Derived terms

    * you bewdy (interjection)

    See also

    * bonzer (adjective)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday.'' — ''Bewdy , mate!
  • * 1993 , Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam , page 124,
    • The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy , you showed him.’
  • * 2009 , Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash , page 6,
    • “Bewdy! ” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.
  • * 2011 , , Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court , page 123,
    • ‘Listen, I?ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I?ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
    ‘Tomorrow? Bewdy ,’ said Mallon.