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English
Etymology
From beauty.
Noun
bewdy (plural bewdies)
- Pronunciation spelling of beauty.
1933, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 233, page 350:“ […] Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”
1936, The American Caravan, volume 5, page 625:This was bewdy.
2008, Nage Archer, Slave Heart, page 189:Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy, pretty as a rosella.
- (Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35:The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It′s a bewdy.’
1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15:‘ […] Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.
1997, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull, page 94:But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.
2000, Ian Jack, editor, Australia: The New New World: Granta, page 172:‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don′t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’
2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97:Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.
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Interjection
bewdy
- (Australia, informal) Used to express enthusiasm, pleasure or approval.
- I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday. — Bewdy, mate!
1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124:The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’
2009, Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash, page 6:“Bewdy!” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.
2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123:‘Listen, I′ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I′ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
‘Tomorrow? Bewdy,’ said Mallon.