What Makes a Bonzer Etymology?: Exploring the mysteries of bonzers, boshters, boskers, and bontodgers

James Lambert

What Makes a Bonzer Etymology? Exploring the mysteries of bonzers, boshters, boskers, and bontodgers

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James Lambert is the Contributing Editor of Green’s Dictionary of Slang. In this special guest blog he has been looking into the etymology of one of Australia’s quintessential slang words: bonzer and with it a variety of associated terms. The conclusions he draws, based on extensive research, take our knowledge of this unique group of superlatives to a new level.

Original language	English
Type	blog article
Media of output	website
Publication status	Published - 3 Sep 2020
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