paulb says I haven't heard 'bonzer' [= good, excellent] for many years. Sidney Baker's 'The drum" also has the derivatives: bontoger, bontogerino, bonzerino, bonziorie and bonzo.

I was on a station near (within 50 miles) of Toowoomba (in Queensland for northerners) a year ago, and the head jackeroo was watching some cattle being herded into a pen for drenching. He was checking the ear tags off on a tick sheet, and as each beast went through the gate he ticked, and said "Bonzer...20!" or whatever the tag number was.

So, maybe it's dying, but it's not yet dead ... perhaps it's a local casualty like the Tasmanian Tiger (or Devil, I never can remember which is which!).


The idiot also known as Capfka ...