bewdy

plural bewdies

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of beauty.

   This was bewdy.

   1936, The American Caravan, volume 5, page 625

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   “[…]Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”

   1933, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 233, page 350

   Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy, pretty as a rosella.

   2008, Nage Archer, Slave Heart, page 189

2. AustraliainformalA beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.

   But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.

   1997, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull, page 94

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   The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It′s a bewdy.’

   1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35

   ‘[…]Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.

   1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15

   ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don′t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’

   2000, Ian Jack, editor, Australia: The New New World: Granta, page 172

   Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.

   2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97

1. AustraliainformalUsed to express enthusiasm, pleasure or approval.

   I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday. — Bewdy, mate!

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   The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’

   1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124

   “Bewdy!” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.

   2009, Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash, page 6

   ‘Listen, I′ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I′ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite. ‘Tomorrow? Bewdy,’ said Mallon.

   2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123