Examples
“Bovril," and unnecessarily explain that the pool it came from contained two dead horses and an ox.”
“His Piccadilly painting features ads for Coca Cola, Bovril, Max Factor, Gordon's Gin and Wrigleys on the famous hoardings overlooking the junction.”
“Cue widespread spluttering over half-time Bovril, especially by those taking the view that there are no circumstances in which the concepts of foreplay, slow arousal, and Ken Bates should ever be allowed to appear so closely together in any one sentence.”
The Guardian: Ken Bates and the art of slow seduction cannot help but leave me cold| Martin Kelner
“I took extreme action and switched to Bovril long enough for him to stop seeing me as a useful coffee supplier.”
“It goes on: "A strict diet for two days a week consisting solely of vegetables, fruit, milk and a mug of Bovril could prevent breast cancer, scientists say.”
The Guardian: The Daily Mail cancer story that torpedoes itself in paragraph 19
“These are illustrated with reference to film, comic books, advertising for, of all things, Bovril, cartoons and television.”
The Wall Street Journal: Back to the Future: From the Second Century to Ishiguro
“No piece unites the book's themes better than a 1900 advertisement for Bovril, that uniquely British meat concentrate.”
“As a student, she lived on "rice cooked with Bovril or tomato ketchup or, when the occasion demanded protein, whelks"; these whelks I find hilarious, don't ask me why.”
The Guardian: What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam
“From the comfort of their own PC or in the classroom, anyone can now search for thousands of images of historic popular culture, from Queen Victoria to Bovril adverts and boy scouts.”
Online Database: Alice’s Adventures Join Digital Collection « ResourceShelf
“Dennis was a guy who went to the pub on Friday nights, then staggered home to listen to a BBC radio serial with a cup of hot Bovril.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Bovril’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Things people will tell you might be ...
Those sweet, salty, nutty, vegetably, yummy and/or hork-worthy spreadables or munchables that folks will convince you to try.
Marmite, Vegemite, vegemite, marmite, Bovril, bovril, nutella, Nutella, Cheez Whiz, cheez whiz, almond butter, cashew butter and 39 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Copeaux of Random Palavery
More randomly selected words to add to my various lists of "Random Palavery". "Copeaux" in the sense of bits, bobs, chips, fragments, pieces. Don't ask why my Random Palavery lists consist of 151...
deshoot, land cress, american cress, bank cress, belle isle cress, bermuda cress, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, locust valley loc..., massively multipl..., local fluff and 139 more...
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Factual
Bovril, grit, croquette, denizen, symbiosis, alimony, parasol, ajwain, sherbet, feline, billet-doux, regicide and 72 more...
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