willing adj.
(Aus./N.Z.) pugnacious, aggressive, violent; thus willing go, a tough boxing match with both fighters exerting their utmost.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Jan. 24/2: Boxing exhibitions are slippery Herb’s game. He’s not taking any chances at the ‘willing’ business if there’s a possible get-out. [Ibid.] 20 Oct. 13/2: [cartoon caption] Civil War. / Larry Loo: ‘Wot did Jim wanter go to the war fer? Didn’t his missus make it willin’ enough for him?’. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Sept. 4/7: I’m doin’ me block over a tart round at a willin’ rubby. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Sept. 4/7: The ole woman got willin’ on their ’air an’ poured Dago sauce over their Buckley and Nunn blouses. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Aug. 14/1: Arthur, whose arm at the finish looked as if it had had a willing go with a coil of barbed wire gone mad, knocked up 3760, but 900 of these were declared rejects. | |
| ‘War’ in Moods of Ginger Mick 24: ’Struth! ’e wus willin’ wus that Kharki’ chap; / I ’ad me work cut out to stop a scrap. | |
| Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 5/3: I am out ter earn me shillin’, / Make no errer I am willin’, / An’ me energy is thrillin’, / Strike me pink, I aint a blob! | |
| Jimmy Brockett 91: They got pretty mad with each other at times and it looked willing enough. | |
| Holy Smoke 56: I remembered You, didn’t I? In the long run, when the pace got a bit willin’? | |
| (con. 1930s) ‘Keep Moving’ 18: Don’t make it too willing, though, and don’t tell your mates. |