(C19 Britain) A boy who cleans boots and shoes. / (1970s Britain slang) One of a gang of violent hooligans who usually wear short-cropped hair and bovver boots.

An English habitational surname / (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname. / A female given name transferred from the surname. Popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.

simple past tense and past participle of profuse

The quality of not being modern.