Meaning

(Australia, slang, obsolete) excellent; wonderful; bonzer..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Australia, slang, obsolete) excellent; wonderful; bonzer.
2. (Australia, slang, obsolete) Someone or something impressive and wonderful.

Example Sentences

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

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!

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

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

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

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

"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.

Word Forms

• more bosker
• most bosker
• boska
• boskers

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When Should You Use Bosker?

Use bosker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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