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Bay_fever

Bay fever

English

Noun

Bay fever ‎(plural Bay fevers)

  1. (Australia, slang, obsolete) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay, used pejoratively.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1811, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
  2. ↑ 1811, Francis Grose, Lexicon balatronicum : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence.

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