See bontosher on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Variant of bontodger.", "forms": [ { "form": "bontoshers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "bontosher (plural bontoshers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1914 January 11, The Sunday Times, Perth, page 3, column 2:", "text": "It was a scorcher right enough, and so deadly still that it seemed difficult to breathe. However, Tuesday evening saw a duststorm - a beauty, a regular bontosher - and that gave us a cool night and brought temperatures down to 20 degrees on Wednesday.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Someone or something impressive and wonderful." ], "id": "en-bontosher-en-noun-kVf7tdoZ", "links": [ [ "impressive", "impressive" ], [ "wonderful", "wonderful" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, slang, obsolete) Someone or something impressive and wonderful." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "obsolete", "slang" ] } ], "word": "bontosher" }
{ "etymology_text": "Variant of bontodger.", "forms": [ { "form": "bontoshers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "bontosher (plural bontoshers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Australian English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1914 January 11, The Sunday Times, Perth, page 3, column 2:", "text": "It was a scorcher right enough, and so deadly still that it seemed difficult to breathe. However, Tuesday evening saw a duststorm - a beauty, a regular bontosher - and that gave us a cool night and brought temperatures down to 20 degrees on Wednesday.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Someone or something impressive and wonderful." ], "links": [ [ "impressive", "impressive" ], [ "wonderful", "wonderful" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, slang, obsolete) Someone or something impressive and wonderful." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "obsolete", "slang" ] } ], "word": "bontosher" }
Download raw JSONL data for bontosher meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.