Obs.–1 [See SOUTH a. 2 b and BOURD sb.] A repartee.
c. 1800. A. Carlyle, Autobiog. (1860), 267. Lindsay was a hussar in raillery, who had no mercy…. Monteath was more than his match, for he lay by, and took his opportunity of giving him such southboards as silenced him for the whole evening.
