bosker

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1. Australiaobsoleteslangexcellent; wonderful; bonzer.

   They were bosker horses. Until I went to work for Bill I didn't know how good racehorses are.

   1946, Frank Sargeson, That Summer, and Other Stories, page 31

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   But her dadda had fallen off a dray and hurt his back so they'd come down to the city to get jobs, only there weren't any and she'd had to go out and char and do laundry work when she could get it and then her dadda got put in the hospital and was still very crook so wasn't it lucky she'd got this nice job as housemaid in this posh house and the money was bosker and one night off a week into the bargain and old Mrs Bult was lovely to her and so was his aunty, although you had to mind your p's and q's with her!

   1963, Sumner Locke Elliott, Careful, He Might Hear You, →ISBN, page 127

   So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough.

   1965, Frank Sargeson, Collected stories, page 50

   ‘And they’d got two boska kids. She’s a proper Lady and Phil’s a real Jack Robertson.’

   1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 93

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1. AustraliaobsoleteslangSomeone or something impressive and wonderful.

   Thank Mona for me, will you. Gee, isn't she a bosker!

   2013, Archie Foley, Margaret Monroe, Portabello & the Great War, →ISBN

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   “You're a bosker, Millicent," Tom exclaimed fervently.

   1912, Laura Bogue Luffman, A Question of Latitude, page 238

   "Ain't he a bosker?" enthusiastically commented Andrew, coming in to see what I had thought of this doctor, who was the idol of Noonoon.

   2014, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, →ISBN