There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word bonzer. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. View the pronunciation model here. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used as in British and US English.
Varying degrees of anglicization may be reflected in subsequent pronunciations. Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U. English Simple Text Respell. More about OED's frequency bands. Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams version 2 , a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between and The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
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OUP will not use this email address for any other purpose. Skip to main content. Dictionary Historical Thesaurus. What does the word bonzer mean? Fewer than 0. See frequency. How is the word bonzer pronounced? See pronunciation. Earliest known use s. The earliest known use of the word bonzer is in the s. See etymology. Summary Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Origin uncertain. Boncer , a taw or stone used to strike marbles from a ring.
Cope , Glossary of Hampshire Words. Last week I had the griffen [ i. Kept 'em jigging from the start. He paid a tearing divvy, and won by half a chain. Show less. Quotations Hide all quotations Contents Noun. The precise sense of quot. Ain't it a boncer? The Music Box at Jubilee Bazaar And don't they sell things cheap? The advertisement.. Les Tecce's office. As for me, I'm off to meet Salim in Mumbai. It'll be a bonzer! Australian English New Zealand English colloquial and slang.
