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In some senses, bovver is marked as slang, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
bovver
/ˈbɒvə/
noun 2verb 1intj 1
Collocations
4VERB + BOVVER
bit, don't, gangs, know
BOVVER + NOUN
birds, girls, violence-prone
PREP.
with
ADV.
really
Definitions
noun
1
Pronunciation spelling of bother.
No need to tell me, I'd recognize that Cockney accent anywhere! “I'm in a bit of bovver,” he said. “Do me a favour and go to the shelter and do the necessary for Trixie.”
2
Violence, especially that associated with youth gangs.
In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it.
verb
1
Pronunciation spelling of bother.
"You specials," Nigel said disgustedly. "I don't know why I bovver, really I don't."
"I don't bovver," he said, with a cross look in the direction of his brother and sister Rochesters.
intj
1
Pronunciation spelling of bother.
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No need to tell me, I'd recognize that Cockney accent anywhere! “I'm in a bit of bovver,” he said. “Do me a favour and go to the shelter and do the necessary for Trixie.”
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In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of
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"You specials," Nigel said disgustedly. "I don't know why I bovver, really I don't."
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"I don't bovver," he said, with a cross look in the direction of his brother and sister Rochesters.
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[…] in Brighton & Hove, where the council were not above attempting a sort of half-hearted, class-based ethnic-cleansing-without-violence, wherein families who have been in Brighton for generations—wh
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