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bosker en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Unknown. Commonly aligned with bonzer and boshter, though exact connection not established.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, obsolete, slang) excellent; wonderful; bonzer.
    • They were bosker horses. Until I went to work for Bill I didn't know how good racehorses are. 1946, Frank Sargeson, That Summer, and Other Stories, page 31:
    • So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough. 1965, Frank Sargeson, Collected stories, page 50:
    • ‘And they’d got two boska kids. She’s a proper Lady and Phil’s a real Jack Robertson.’ 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 93:
    • But her dadda had fallen off a dray and hurt his back so they'd come down to the city to get jobs, only there weren't any and she'd had to go out and char and do laundry work when she could get it and then her dadda got put in the hospital and was still very crook so wasn't it lucky she'd got this nice job as housemaid in this posh house and the money was bosker and one night off a week into the bargain and old Mrs Bult was lovely to her and so was his aunty, although you had to mind your p's and q's with her! 1963, Sumner Locke Elliott, Careful, He Might Hear You, →ISBN, page 127:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
boska alternative lexicographic
most bosker Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bosker Degree=Cmp lexicographic

bosker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Unknown. Commonly aligned with bonzer and boshter, though exact connection not established.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, obsolete, slang) Someone or something impressive and wonderful.
    • "Ain't he a bosker?" enthusiastically commented Andrew, coming in to see what I had thought of this doctor, who was the idol of Noonoon. 2014, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, →ISBN:
    • Thank Mona for me, will you. Gee, isn't she a bosker! 2013, Archie Foley, Margaret Monroe, Portabello & the Great War, →ISBN:
    • “You're a bosker, Millicent," Tom exclaimed fervently. 1912, Laura Bogue Luffman, A Question of Latitude, page 238:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
boskers Number=Plur lexicographic
boska alternative lexicographic