bonnern.
/ˈbɒnə/, U.S. /ˈbɑnər/, /ˈbɔnər/ British slang (chiefly Oxford University and Cambridge University). Now rare.
A bonfire.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > immense > for burning heretics, books, or rubbish
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1898 Oxf. Mag. 19 May While the Bonner burns, make haste to pass The Revellers firework-scattered on the Grass.
1916 A. Quiller-Couch On Art of Writing xii. 286 The bonfire (which of course he called the ‘bonner’) being due at nine-thirty o'clock.
1927 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 10/4 We should be rightly apprehensive if we were to hear of no more ‘rags’ or ‘bonners’.
1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. 192 At the last bonner of the term I stole away from the noisy mob dancing round it and..went up to the History library.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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