Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An aboriginal commendatory expression meaning ‘good’: used colloquially in the Australian bush.
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- adjective Pretty or good.
Etymologies
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Comes from Australian Pidgin English.
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Examples
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Depositions were taken, before which he became faint, and a glass of wine revived him, which lie told us afterwards, made him “budgeree”, (that is well again.)
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Baal any other gin along of camp have shirt like 'it you; and when piccaninny sit down "(for there was a prospect of her presenting Ferdinand with a little pledge of affection)," mine give that fellow two budgeree flour-bag shirts, suppose only you good fellow girl
Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858
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