bronze n.2
1. (Aus., also bronzer) a copper coin.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 20 Apr. 3/7: There are friends who’d do you for your bank / The bronze, the white, and red. | |
| Tweed Dly (Murwillumbah, NSW) 18 Jan. 7/5: ‘YawI set? Then come inter the ring, spinner.’ ‘Now, fair go, an’ don’ kick them bronzers!’. |
2. (Aus.) the anus, the posterior.
| Aus. Speaks 105: Bronzo, anus (a variation of bronze, used similarly). | |
| Big Smoke 164: He roared laughing and gave her a slap on the seat. ‘The biggest bronza in the world-and just think, you’re all mine.’. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dictionary’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxii 7/1: bronze: Posterior. | |
| Salute to the Great McCarthy 75: This is the last day you spend sitting on your bronzes in the sun. Get up! | |
| (ref. to 1953) Australian (Sydney) 25 Nov. 10/2: In the age of innocence (1953), we fell about at the lines: ‘There’s rust on me bust and me bronze is all tarnished’ [AND]. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 216: But it was a win nonetheless and a bit better than a boot up the bronze. |
3. excrement.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Lowspeak 31: Bronze – faeces. |
In derivatives
(US) a city’s primarily African-American centre, esp. that in Chicago.
 | News (Paterson, NJ) 24 Dec. 1/6: [headline] Scouts earned Money To Buy Gifts For Poor / Bronzeville Boys Ran Errands and Cleaned Walks. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 10 Nov. 6/7: [headline] ‘Mayor of Bronzeville’ Inauguration Proves To Be Gala Occasion. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier 16 Mar. 4/3: The foremost Negro shoe store in America is operated [...] by Jim Knight, a former ‘Mayor of Bronzeville’. | |
| Chicago Sun. Trib. 28 May pt 4 8/: [He] called out attention to a young colored girl [i.e. Gwendolyn Brooks] who, tho utterly unknown, had what he called ‘a deep, genuine talent’... When her ‘A Street in Bronzeville’ was published [etc]. | |
| Chicago Trib. 21 Sept. 1/7: Scott and the other two men, operating as the Bronzeville Enterprises [...] picketing certain south side stores. | |
| Chicago Trib. 8 June 61/1: Bronzeville, the city’s [i.e. Chicago] bustling but segregated African center. |
In phrases
(Aus. prison) to register a ‘dirty protest’ by smearing one’s cell walls with faeces.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Bronze-up. To smear excreta over one’s body or livingquarters as a form of protest. This is not widely practised and in fact other prisoners regard it as a sign that the perpetrator is becoming unstable. |
very ugly.
| Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 139: I know the one with an ugly face like a hatful of bronzas. | |
| Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Hebe was a complete hump and uglier than a hat full of arseholes. |