Contemporary slang . 2014.
boracic — brassic UK / US or boracic UK [bəˈræsɪk] / US adjective British informal someone who is brassic does not have any money I m so brassic that I ve been eating breakfast cereal for meals … English dictionary
Boracic lint — was a type of medical dressing made from surgical lint that was soaked in a hot, saturated solution of boracic acid and glycerine and then left to dry.It has been in use since at least the 19th century,T H Pennington Listerism, its decline and… … Wikipedia
brassic — UK / US or boracic UK [bəˈræsɪk] / US adjective British informal someone who is brassic does not have any money I m so brassic that I ve been eating breakfast cereal for meals … English dictionary
brassic — adj British penniless, broke. The word is a shorten ing of the rhyming slang boracic lint : skint. A genuine example of London working class argot, this term was adopted into raffish speech in general from the early 1970s. (Boracic is an older… … Contemporary slang
boracic — British indigent Rhyming slang, boracic lint, skint. Usually denoting a temporary embarrassment, when the sufferer may describe himself as brassic … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
brassic — adjective /ˈbræsɪk/ a) Of or relating to brassicas. b) Variant spelling of boracic (in the sense of penniless ) … Wiktionary
