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Noun
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Bay
fever
(
plural
Bay fevers
)
(
Australia
,
slang
,
obsolete
,
derogatory
)
Any
illness
feigned
by
convicts
to avoid being sent to
Botany Bay
.
[1]
[2]
References
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^
1811, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
^
1811, Francis Grose,
Lexicon balatronicum : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence
.