bonzer

comparative more bonzer · superlative most bonzer · alternative boncer · alternative bonza

1. AustraliaNew ZealandinformalRemarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific.

   Inside sat one of the most bonzer sights she′d ever seen.

   1991, Noel Virtue, Always the Islands of Memory, page 148

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   To see their faces brighten and to hear their 'Thanks Cobber, that was bonzer!' was a joy

   1915, Young Men's Christian Associations. International Committee, For the millions of men now under arms, volume 2

   To all the earth she gives the soft glad-eye; She picks no fav′rits in this world o′ men; She peeps in nooks, where ′appy lovers sigh, To make their joy more bonzer still; an′ then, O′er Spadger′s Lane she waves a podgy ′and, An′ turns the scowlin′ slums to Fairyland.

   1916, C. J. Dennis, "In Spadger′s Lane", in The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 36

   ‘By jings, it’s bonzer fun; better’n motor-cars any day.’

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 24

   You’ll make the bonzerest couple ever seen this side the Tropic.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 220

   By cripes, you couldn′t have a more bonzer place for doing the thing in style with girls.

   1945, Douglas Stewart, editor, Coast to Coast: Australian Stories 1945, page 51

plural bonzers · alternative boncer · alternative bonza

1. AustraliaNew ZealandinformalobsoleteAn excellent person or thing.

   King Ned is a "bonzer".

   1904 August 28, The Truth, Sydney, page 1, column 7

   Synonyms: bottler, ripper