bonner University slang.
(ˈbɒnə(r))
[f. bonfire + -er6.]
A bonfire. Obsolescent.
| 1898 Oxford Mag. 19 May, While the Bonner burns, make haste to pass The Revellers firework-scattered on the Grass. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 6 Dec. 10/1 The authorities of a certain college gave permission for the turf of the quadrangle to be taken up in order to make better provision for the ‘bonner’. 1927 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 10/4 We should be rightly apprehensive if we were to hear of no more ‘rags’ or ‘bonners’. |