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bosker

bosker adjective: excellent; wonderful; bonzer.

Adjective

bosker (comparative more bosker, superlative most bosker)

  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
    • 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...1963, Sumner Locke Elliott, Careful, He Might Hear You, →ISBN, page 127

Noun

bosker (plural boskers)

  1. (Australia, obsolete, slang) Someone or something impressive and wonderful.
    • “You're a bosker, Millicent," Tom exclaimed fervently.1912, Laura Bogue Luffman, A Question of Latitude, page 238
    • Thank Mona for me, will you. Gee, isn't she a bosker!2013, Archie Foley, Margaret Monroe, Portabello & the Great War, →ISBN

Examples of bosker in a sentence

  • 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:
  • "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:

Forms of bosker

Adjective
comparativemore bosker
superlativemost bosker
alternative formboska
Noun
pluralboskers

Origin of bosker

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

Questions about bosker

What does bosker mean?
Bosker means excellent; wonderful; bonzer.
How do you use bosker in a sentence?
So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough.
What part of speech is bosker?
Bosker can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bosker in the dictionary

  1. Bosjesmen
  2. bosk
  3. boska
  4. boskage
  5. boskages
  6. bosker
  7. boskers
  8. bosket
  9. boskets
  10. Boskett
  11. boskier

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