Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bovvered

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables
bovvered
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

bothered; caring about something

British usage; Informal

verb

simple past and past participle of bovver

Etymology

Imitating a working-class or uneducated pronunciation with th-fronting. Popularised as the catchphrase of the fictional Lauren Cooper in The Catherine Tate Show in the mid-2000s.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more bovvered (comparative) most bovvered (superlative)

Derived Forms

unbovvered

Questions

What does bovvered mean?
bothered; caring about something
Where does bovvered come from?
Imitating a working-class or uneducated pronunciation with th-fronting. Popularised as the catchphrase of the fictional Lauren Cooper in The Catherine Tate Show in the mid-2000s.

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