beaut adj.
(Aus./N.Z.) beautiful, splendid.
![]() | Truth (Wellington) 22 May 7: [headline] Berryman’s Beaut Bride. | |
![]() | Barrier Miner *Broken Hill, NSW) 5 Jan. 3/4: They were having a beaut time. | |
![]() | ‘The Digger’s Letter to His Wife’ in Baker (1966) 181: You trimmer, you’re bonzer, you’re beaut. | |
![]() | Gunner Inglorious (1974) 172: He hauled off and flattened one with a beauty swipe. | |
![]() | Western Mail (Perth) 16 Jan. 45/2: We are having a beaut holiday in the Y.M.C.A. camp. | |
![]() | Jimmy Brockett 56: Good morning. It’s a beaut day. [Ibid.] 139: She looked beaut in a green costume. | |
![]() | On the Beach 71: It’s been a beaut evening. | |
![]() | Cop This Lot 84: She’s a beaut buildin’, but. | |
![]() | Stag Party 105: He got a beauty new likka he make hisself. | |
![]() | Yarns of Billy Borker 51: Up drove another one, in a Rolls-Royce, and a beaut sheila with him. | |
![]() | in Living Black 174: She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. | |
![]() | Slow Boats to China (1983) 317: He’s got a beaut bike. | |
![]() | Beaut Little Bk NZ Slang n.p.: It’s a well-known fact that Kiwis have their own way of talking, and without a guide you can easily come a greaser. Have a gink at this beaut little book, and you won't need to feel a nong any more. | |
![]() | Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 29: Hey, mate, have you ever slept in bed with a beaut bluey sheila like that one? | |
![]() | (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 93: ‘How are you?’ ‘Bloody beaudy, mate’. | |
![]() | (con. 1945–6) Devil’s Jump (2008) 119: I can see from down here that you’ve done beaut job. | |
![]() | Silver [ebook] ‘Gets the breeze, kids can play on the sand. Real nice.’ ‘Sounds beaut’. |