English

Noun

Botany Bay fever ‎(uncountable)

1. (Britain, euphemistic, obsolete) Penal servitude; transportation.
   • 1914, William Frend De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost, page 410,

     What!—me not know my * * * Testament! Why!—it's the only * * * book you get a word of when you're nursing for Botany Bay fever.