boshter

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1. AustraliaobsoleteslangExcellent; wonderful.

   Hey, mate! Tell Captain Vincent I said he's a boshter seaman.

   2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street, →ISBN, page 322

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   An' p'r'aps the owner uv the station 'll drive over with some boshter girls who been stayin' at the homestead, an' they'll come trippin' alorng the board, steppin' over the fleeces in their dinky little shoes an' stockin's yer can fair see through, an' as they step about yer pen or pass yer, yer nearly cut yer sheep, 'coz yer tryin' ter sniff up every bit uv the boshter scent wot they smells of.

   1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 131

   That kim up to the station I wus at; A boshter tabby, not too thin ner fat, En watto fer a hottie — ut the start.

   1956, Louis Lavater, The Sonnet in Australasia, a Survey and Selection., page 12

   So glad to hear you're coming down to tear the Christmas poultry. It's boshter.

   1988, Patricia Fullerton, Hugh Ramsay: His Life and Work, page 130

   "A boshter night for a walk," I remarked, buttoning my coat about me.

   2007, Mary Anneeta Mann, Anzac to Understanding, →ISBN, page 745

plural boshters

1. AustraliaobsoleteslangSomeone or something impressive and wonderful.

   He's quite a boshter - people say he's like me so you can guess his beauty.

   1995, Peter Fitzpatrick, Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson, →ISBN, page 69

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   I remember once when l was repairin' a fault on the Coolgardie line sixty miles out a thunderstorm came on. It was a boshter!

   1910, Bernard Dubois, The High Light: A Souvenir Volume, page 36

   That the champion Black-red Modern Game cockerel at the P. & K. Club's show was a “boshter."

   1921, Australian Garden and Field - Volume 48, page 54

   "A boshter!" cried Billdad. "It'll knock 'em stiff." Was not Billdad a public performer himself, did not Billdad know?

   1922, Edward Dyson, The Grey Goose Comedy Company, page 60