Bay fever

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Noun [edit]

Bay fever (plural Bay fevers)

  1. (Australia, slang, obsolete) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay, used perjoratively.[1][2]

References [edit]

  1. ^ 1811, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
  2. ^ 1811, Francis Grose, Lexicon balatronicum : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence.
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