Meanings
nounBotany Bay fever (uncountable)
- UKeuphemisticobsoleteuncountablePenal servitude; transportation.
What!—me not know my * * * Testament! Why!—it's the only * * * book you get a word of when you're nursing for Botany Bay fever.
1914, William Frend De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost, page 410
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