Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(mainly Aus.) a euph. for bloody adj.

1868		Herald (Fremantle, WA) 10 Oct. 4/1: So you think you’ll gammon the gumsuckers with that nice twister you’ve been spinning all over the colony? Why my old man says you must take us for a lot of adjective fools.
1871		Sporting Times 7 Jan. 7/3: Mr Foulplay— Don’t go a quoting from your (adjective) succylar.
1881		Bulletin (Sydney) 28 May 4/1: ‘I’m only a plain man —I calls a spade a spade.’ ‘Well, I don’t about that [...] I think you’re the kind of man who’d call it an adjective shovel.
1884		Sporting Times 4 Oct. 2/2: ‘Put that adjectived veal on the spit’.
1887		Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Oct. 12/1: He would have liked to strike and say he would not hump any more adjective grass, but the poor garden coster’s donkey daren’t – it was more than his place was worth.
1890		Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Aug. 14/3: I’d like to know who the ringleader of this adjective push is, because, if he’s a man I’d be glad to settle it outside the shed with him.
1892		H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 286: Wot the adjective adjective are you laughing at?
1898		E.S. Mott Mingled Yarn 54: ‘Learn to keep your adjective hands down, and to balance your something-else bodies in the saddle, and then you shall have all the bad-language bits and spurs you want’.
1900		Sporting Times 26 May 1/5: Gorblimy, Sergeant, aint I taking sanguineous cover? Do you want me to get inside an adjective house?
1901		Times (Washington, DC) 5 June 4/1: It is plain that the Administration has received a court fiat to do as it adjectively pleases with the colonies.
1905		Sporting Times 1 Apr. 1/2: Do you adjectively want to get into my adjective pocket?
c.1905		J. Furphy Buln-Buln and the Brolga (1948) 🌐 D--n the boots! and the (adj.) snob that made them!
1912		P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 70: I thought you said a wicked word. In fact, you reminded me of my grandpa. General Bucker. He used to talk just like that, you know. They called him 'poor adjective Backer,'.
1913		Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Nov. 8/8: The other legitimate blokes / Pronounce him an adjective loafer.
1916		‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 100: ‘Rush the adjectived, asterisked, double-starred sons of lady dogs, boys!’.
1923		‘Bartimeus’ ‘In the Dog-Watches’ in Seaways 21: If I’d ’a’ known you was an adjectival Dago I’d never ’a’ bought you.