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Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 2 Feb. 4/3: Also, the current market price — the splitter, in slang language, may obtain for the said free blank pardon.at splitter (n.) under split, n.
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 2 Feb. 4/3: Also, the current market price — the splitter, in slang language, may obtain for the said free blank pardon. Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 6 July 3/4: , I take the liberty (if a Quill driver,
consistant with Botany-bay notions of gentility, may make so
bold) to offer a few remarks.at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 16 Oct. 2/1: Verses of ‘A. Z.’ are prosey in the extreme. ‘Strike me Lucky next discount day,’ is in, type, but the Reform Bill is of more consequence than ‘Strike me Lucky’s Bill,’ with ‘such a name’ .at strike me lucky! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 18 Mar. 5/4: We have heard of a ball [...] to which a lady lately married was invited, hut whose husband was not considered sufficiently aristocratical to be admitted among the pure merinos.at pure merino, n.
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 25 Aug. 7/4: John Mulligan, John Williams, Henry Calley, John McCarthy and Samuel Everett, professed friends of Lord Lushington, were each fined 5s.at Lushington, n.
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 26 Jan. 7/3: Dinah had thrown the contents of a ‘Member Mug’ over her, and scratched her and tore a few bunches of hair from her head.at member mug (n.) under member, n.1
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 10 Mar. 4/3: The Flash Mob at the Factory consists [...] of a certain number of women, who, by a simple process of initiation, are admitted into a series of unhallowed mysteries [...] With the fiendish fondness for sin, every effort, both in the Factory, and out of it, is made by these wretches, to acquire proselytes to their infamous practices.at flash mob (n.) under flash, adj.
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 16 June 2/6: Mr Codd, who was well known to the Vandemonian portion of the population, was buried nexct day.at vandemonianism, n.
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 13 Feb. 3/3: Mr. Watson asked Smith [...] whether on a certain occasion he had not heard Mr. Watson tell him to go to Wallaby Track. (A laugh.) It was explained that this was a bush phrase, a slang term.at wallaby track (n.) under wallaby, n.
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