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{ "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" }
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