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boncer

boncer adjective: remarkable; wonderful.

Adjective

boncer (comparative more boncer, superlative most boncer)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, obsolete) Remarkable; wonderful.
    • The Trout boys had often spent the day with the Burnells in town, but now that they lived in this fine house and boncer garden they were inclined to be very friendly.1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, chapter 8, page 45
    Synonyms:
    bottler, ripper

Noun

boncer (plural boncers)

  1. (New Zealand, dated) A kind of large marble; a bonce.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, obsolete) Something remarkable, wonderful, excellent, etc.
    • ‘Of course the hero of the meeting was A.H. Holder, and let me tell you he is a ‘boncer’.1897 April 3, The Auckland Star, Supplement, page 2

Synonyms of boncer

Forms of boncer

Adjective
comparativemore boncer
superlativemost boncer
alternative formbonzer
Noun
pluralboncers

Origin of boncer

In marble sense: British dialect (north Hampshire), probably variant of bouncer (“a large thing”). In slang sense (= remarkable, excellent): replaced by voiced variant bonzer.

Questions about boncer

What does boncer mean?
Boncer means remarkable; wonderful.
What part of speech is boncer?
Boncer can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near boncer in the dictionary

  1. bonbons
  2. Bonbright
  3. Boncath
  4. bonce
  5. bonce about
  6. boncer
  7. boncers
  8. bonces
  9. bonch
  10. bonches
  11. Bonchester

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