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Bovril|ˈbɒvrɪl|
Also bovril.
[f. L. bōs, bovis, ox, cow.]
1. The proprietary name of a concentrated essence of beef, invented in 1889 by J. Lawson Johnston. Also fig.
1889Athenæum 18 Aug. 187/1 He ought to have drunk nothing but water, or at most a comforting cup of bovril. 1924T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 452 Your work..is the essence of thought, a variety of mental Bovril. 1935Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin 12 Tourists, to whom the Tudor cafés Offer Bovril and buns upon Breton ware.
2. Facetious alteration of brothel n. 3.
1936R. Ackland After October i. 49, I had to take a job as a sort of dancing partner, and the place was practically a bovril. 1948S. P. B. Mais Caper Sauce xii. 124 I'm not having my house turned into a Bovril. |