bizzo
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editAudio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪzəʊ
Noun
editbizzo (countable and uncountable, plural bizzos)
- (UK, Australia, slang) Business; a matter or matters of personal concern; a course of action.
- 1993, Plays International, volume 9, page 41:
- TOM: I knew you'd have to do the full bizzo, I knew it. You disgust me.
- 2007, David Free, A Dancing Bear[1], page 96:
- We don't want this to turn into one of those pie-in-the sky bizzos where you aim too high and then never end up doing it.
- 2009, Alex Archer (a pseudonym; written in-house), Rogue Angel: Eternal Journey, Harlequin Enterprises, page 53,
- None of my bizzo, really, but why was he after you?
- 2010, Wayne Ashton, Equator[2], page 412:
- Hong's calm started to crack coz he'd seen Dave do his one drink for himself bizzo many times over the years since they'd met.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable, slang) An item whose name has been forgotten; a thingumajig.
Old High German
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editFrom Proto-West Germanic *bitō, from Proto-Germanic *bitô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
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