boshter
boshter adjective: excellent; wonderful.
Adjective
boshter (comparative more boshter, superlative most boshter)
- Excellent; wonderful.
- An' p'r'aps the owner uv the station 'll drive over with some boshter girls who been stayin' at the homestead, an' they'll come trippin' alorng the board, steppin' over the fleeces in their dinky little shoes an' stockin's yer can fair see through, an' as they step about yer pen or pass yer, yer...1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 131
- That kim up to the station I wus at; A boshter tabby, not too thin ner fat, En watto fer a hottie — ut the start.1956, Louis Lavater, The Sonnet in Australasia, a Survey and Selection., page 12
Noun
boshter (plural boshters)
- Someone or something impressive and wonderful.
- I remember once when l was repairin' a fault on the Coolgardie line sixty miles out a thunderstorm came on. It was a boshter!1910, Bernard Dubois, The High Light: A Souvenir Volume, page 36
- That the champion Black-red Modern Game cockerel at the P. & K. Club's show was a “boshter."1921, Australian Garden and Field - Volume 48, page 54
Examples of boshter in a sentence
- Tell Captain Vincent I said he's a boshter seaman.2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street, →ISBN, page 322:
- "A boshter night for a walk," I remarked, buttoning my coat about me.2007, Mary Anneeta Mann, Anzac to Understanding, →ISBN, page 745:
- He's quite a boshter - people say he's like me so you can guess his beauty.1995, Peter Fitzpatrick, Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson, →ISBN, page 69:
Forms of boshter
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more boshter |
| superlative | most boshter |
| Noun | |
| plural | boshters |
Origin of boshter
Unknown. Commonly aligned with bonzer and bosker, though exact connection not established.
Questions about boshter
- What does boshter mean?
- Boshter means excellent; wonderful.
- How do you use boshter in a sentence?
- Tell Captain Vincent I said he's a boshter seaman.
- What part of speech is boshter?
- Boshter can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near boshter in the dictionary
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