bonza
⇨ bonzer; bonza
1. adjective
excellent, terrific, wonderful, fabulous, good. This word is the only survivng member of a set of synonymous terms that all appeared in the first decade of C20, the others being 'bontosher', 'boshter' and 'bosker'. It is claimed that these were all corruptions of an original term that was a compound of the French words bon (good) and toujours (always) AUSTRALIA, 1904
2. adverb
excellently; brilliantly; well AUSTRALIA, 1914
3. noun
someone or something that is excellent AUSTRALIA, 1904