bewdy
English
Etymology
From beauty.
Noun
bewdy (plural bewdies)
- Eye dialect spelling of beauty.
- (Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
- 1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35,
- The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It′s a bewdy.’
- 1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15:
- ‘ […] Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.
- 2000, Ian Jack (editor), Australia: The New New World, Granta, page 172,
- ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don′t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’
- 1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35,
Derived terms
- you bewdy (interjection)
See also
- bonzer (adjective)
Interjection
bewdy
- (Australia, informal) Used to express enthusiasm, pleasure or approval.
- I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday. — Bewdy, mate!
- 1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124,
- The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’
- 2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123:
- ‘Listen, I′ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I′ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
- ‘Tomorrow? Bewdy,’ said Mallon.
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