boster

English

Etymology

Possibly representing an alteration of burster.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒstə/

Noun

boster (plural bosters)

  1. (England, dialect, originally originally Lincolnshire, now chiefly West Midlands) A particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.
    • 1915, Bernard Gilbert, “Lincoln Fair”, in Gone to the War: And Other Poems in the Lincolnshire Dialect, London: J. W. Ruddock & Sons, page 80:
      Then the fat woman! ooh, my word! she wor a boster; […]

References

  1. ^ “boster, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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