Definition of bovver in English:

bovver

noun ˈbɒvə

British informal

mass noun, usually as modifier Hooliganism or violent disorder, especially as caused by gangs of skinheads.
〈英，非正式〉（尤指街头光头仔之间的）斗殴
a bovver boy
参加斗殴的男孩。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was no bovver boy and could have passed for a city gent: clean cut, camel coat, a product of his times.
- As an aside, I should say that New Yorkers - at least, the New Yorkers who were there last night - don't really do the bovver boy act very convincingly, which added to the pantomime quality of the whole event.
- This rough assumption brings other troubling implications in its wake, like cultural bovver boys.
- All of which leaves Howard's political bovver boy looking sadly out of the main game in 2002.
- Thanks to a mindless nucleus of bovver boys, they are loathed the length and breadth of Europe, and often beyond.
- More recently coined words not normally used in formal prose are under no such inhibition: bovver, navvy, revving, skivvy are all written with double v.
- He could not handle the fact that bovver boy threats and intimidation failed to shut us up.
- As politicians of all denominations condemned the attacks, it was left to Howard's out-going bovver boy to go for the cheap political points.
- McKidd, who plays the leader of the bovver boys, admits he's probably in for a kicking.
- 'Bovver boots' are footwear designed to intimidate and injure, or give the impression of doing so, or even make an ironic comment on this.
- That is the dream the Prime Minister has, and she sent her little Brownshirt bovver boy off to the media to pretend that the dream is happening.

Origin

1960s: representing a cockney pronunciation of bother.

bother from late 17th century:
The origins of bother are in Ireland. It is probably related to Irish bodhaire ‘deafness’ and bodhraim ‘to deafen, annoy’. It is first recorded meaning ‘noise, chatter’. In the 18th century emphasis moves to worry, annoyance, and trouble. The word quickly spread out of its Anglo-Irish confines, and in the 19th century appears as a common mild oath in the works of Dickens and Thackeray. The late 1960s gave us bovver, ‘deliberate troublemaking’, which represents a cockney pronunciation of the word. The bovver boy (a hooligan or skinhead) wore bovver boots, heavy boots with a toe cap and laces. The Catherine Tate Show, introduced and popularized the catchphrase ‘Am I bovvered?’ in 2004.

Rhymes

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词汇	bovver
释义	Definition of bovver in English: bovver noun ˈbɒvə British informal mass noun, usually as modifier Hooliganism or violent disorder, especially as caused by gangs of skinheads. 〈英，非正式〉（尤指街头光头仔之间的）斗殴 a bovver boy 参加斗殴的男孩。 Example sentencesExamples He was no bovver boy and could have passed for a city gent: clean cut, camel coat, a product of his times. As an aside, I should say that New Yorkers - at least, the New Yorkers who were there last night - don't really do the bovver boy act very convincingly, which added to the pantomime quality of the whole event. This rough assumption brings other troubling implications in its wake, like cultural bovver boys. All of which leaves Howard's political bovver boy looking sadly out of the main game in 2002. Thanks to a mindless nucleus of bovver boys, they are loathed the length and breadth of Europe, and often beyond. More recently coined words not normally used in formal prose are under no such inhibition: bovver, navvy, revving, skivvy are all written with double v. He could not handle the fact that bovver boy threats and intimidation failed to shut us up. As politicians of all denominations condemned the attacks, it was left to Howard's out-going bovver boy to go for the cheap political points. McKidd, who plays the leader of the bovver boys, admits he's probably in for a kicking. 'Bovver boots' are footwear designed to intimidate and injure, or give the impression of doing so, or even make an ironic comment on this. That is the dream the Prime Minister has, and she sent her little Brownshirt bovver boy off to the media to pretend that the dream is happening. Origin 1960s: representing a cockney pronunciation of bother. bother from late 17th century: The origins of bother are in Ireland. It is probably related to Irish bodhaire ‘deafness’ and bodhraim ‘to deafen, annoy’. It is first recorded meaning ‘noise, chatter’. In the 18th century emphasis moves to worry, annoyance, and trouble. The word quickly spread out of its Anglo-Irish confines, and in the 19th century appears as a common mild oath in the works of Dickens and Thackeray. The late 1960s gave us bovver, ‘deliberate troublemaking’, which represents a cockney pronunciation of the word. The bovver boy (a hooligan or skinhead) wore bovver boots, heavy boots with a toe cap and laces. The Catherine Tate Show, introduced and popularized the catchphrase ‘Am I bovvered?’ in 2004. Rhymes hover
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