boster
UK/ˈbɒstə/
boster noun: a particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.
Noun
boster (plural bosters)
- A particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.
- Then the fat woman! ooh, my word! she wor a boster; […]1915, Bernard Gilbert, “Lincoln Fair”, in Gone to the War: And Other Poems in the Lincolnshire Dialect, London: J. W. Ruddock & Sons, page 80
Proper noun capitalized: Boster
Boster (plural Bosters)
- A surname.
Forms of boster
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bosters |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bosters |
Origin of boster
Possibly representing an alteration of burster.
Questions about boster
- What does boster mean?
- Boster means a particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.
- What part of speech is boster?
- Boster can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce boster?
- Boster is pronounced /ˈbɒstə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of boster?
- The plural of boster is bosters.
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