bontosher
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
bontosher (plural bontoshers)
- (Australia, slang, obsolete) Someone or something impressive and wonderful.
- 1914 January 11, The Sunday Times, Perth, page 3, column 2:
- It was a scorcher right enough, and so deadly still that it seemed difficult to breathe. However, Tuesday evening saw a duststorm - a beauty, a regular bontosher - and that gave us a cool night and brought temperatures down to 20 degrees on Wednesday.
References[edit]
- ^ James Lambert "What Makes a Bonzer Etymology?" (3 September 2020) Green's Dictionary of Slang