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bewdy

bewdy noun: a beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something. Also the pronunciation spelling of beauty.

Noun

bewdy (plural bewdies)

  1. (Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
    • 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.’1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35
    • ‘[…]Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15

Interjection

  1. (Australia, informal) Used to express enthusiasm, pleasure or approval.
    • I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday. — Bewdy, mate!
    • The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124

Also used as

bewdy is also the pronunciation spelling of beauty.

Examples of bewdy in a sentence

  • ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card...2000, Ian Jack, editor, Australia: The New New World: Granta, page 172:
  • Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97:
  • “Bewdy!” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.2009, Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash, page 6:

Forms of bewdy

pluralbewdies

Origin of bewdy

From beauty.

Words formed from bewdy

  • you bewdy

Questions about bewdy

What does bewdy mean?
Bewdy means a beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
How do you use bewdy in a sentence?
‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card...
What part of speech is bewdy?
Bewdy can be a noun or an interjection.
What is the plural of bewdy?
The plural of bewdy is bewdies.

Words near bewdy in the dictionary

  1. bewbs
  2. BEWD
  3. bewdies
  4. Bewdley
  5. BEWDs
  6. bewdy
  7. beweapon
  8. beweaponed
  9. beweaponing
  10. beweapons
  11. bewearied

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