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[Aus] Euroa Advertiser 6 Oct. 3/4: The last quarter [of the match] was a ‘bobby-dazzler’.
at bobby-dazzler, n.1
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 27 May 3s/1: I’ll stick him for the £2,600.
at stick, v.
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 27 May 3s/2: ‘Confound the ugly toad,’ muttered Reggie as he watched the Jew’s ungainly form waddling down the road.
at toad, n.
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 16 May 3s/4: Of all the sin-shifters now holding daily gospel in and around this afflicted city, evangelist Geil takes the lion’s share of the women’s admiration.
at sin-shifter (n.) under sin, n.
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser 26 Apr. n.p.: When a teacher asks him [...] the boy never thinks of answering that [a book] is ‘just the glassy peb’.
at glassy (alley), the, n.
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 26 Apr. n.p.: The phrase ‘bonzer boshter’ may be used for a hundred things.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 26 Apr. n.p.: What about the shortening of words, like ‘poss’ for possible?
at poss, adj.
[Aus] Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 24 Dec. 4/5: In San Francisco [...] he was acting as Father Christmas in a shop window, when his artificial whiskers caught fire, and he bolted with blazing ‘ziff’.
at ziff, n.2
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