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Sydney Monitor 10 Oct. 2/6: His Excellency and family were placed in considerable danger whilst sailing in consequence of a brickfielder [...] which nearly capsized the boat [AND].at brickfielder (n.) under brick, n.
Sydney Monitor 10 Oct. 2/6: His Excellency and family were placed in considerable danger whilst sailing in consequence of a brickfielder [...] which nearly capsized the boat [AND]. Sydney Monitor 14 Aug. 2/1: It [i.e a ttending sick parade] is considered then to have been an attempt to skulk; and such sickly skulkers, previously to falling to work, are regularly anointed with fifty [lashes] each!at anoint (with birchen salve), v.
Sydney Monitor 7 July 2/4: [headline] Dire Work among the Remanent Sly Grog Sellers. A barrel of gunpowder [...] with all the casks of rum, wine, porter, and beer, and the measures into the bargain placed thereon, with the sly grog sellers all seated on top, on being fired, could scarcely have produced greater consternation .at sly-grog, n.
Sydney Monitor 13 Apr. 2/4: The muzzler [...] not only drew the claret, but also extended Mrs Mac on the floor.at claret, n.
Sydney Monitor 13 Apr. 2/4: Sentenced to extend her tour to Parramatta [Jail], where she would have suitable entertainment at Gordon’s Hotel for six weeks.at hotel, n.
Sydney Monitor 25 Feb. 4/4: Phil Riley, a broth of a boy from the Emerald Isle, who, half seas over, had stood enjoying the fun, was sentenced to one hour in the stocks, for brandishing a shilelah and singing out, ‘to the rescue, to the rescue!’.at broth of a boy, n.
Sydney Monitor 25 Feb. 4/4: Why, spinning the mags, your worship, is slang for toss-half penny. [...] Constable Sutland then entered into a detail of rise and fall, in a direct line of a string of halfpence, which were arranged on a flat piece of wood, to enable the twirler to give an equal gravitation to each ; of the cries uttered by the byestanders of ‘6d. on heads!’ ‘3d. on tails!"’of the picking up and putting down of money, &c.at spin the mags (v.) under mag, n.3
Three Years Practical Experience of a Settler in NSW in Sydney Monitor 14 Nov. 1838 2/4: There is an immense deal of slang in the language of the country — ‘cove,’ ‘gammon,’ ‘plant’ are as familiar as household words.at cove, n.
Sydney Monitor 8 Apr. 4/4: . It was thought a harmless thing when Jack allowed his pigtail to be cut off; but what if it should lead to his being cut off from pigtail? He will next eschew chewing. Will he get the ‘quo pro quid?’.at pigtail, n.
Three Years Practical Experience of a Settler in NSW in Sydney Monitor 14 Nov. 1838 2/4: There is an immense deal of slang in the language of the country — ‘cove,’ ‘gammon,’ ‘plant’ are as familiar as household words.at plant, v.1
Sydney Monitor 19 July 2/2: [E]ven were all the specials† at Port Macquarie let loose in support of the ‘Spartan Band’ in Sydney. †This is the slang term for a gentleman, or educated convict.at special, n.
Three Years Practical Experience of a Settler in NSW in Sydney Monitor 14 Nov. 1838 2/4: I then pull out my pocket
knife, draw a damper (bread), cut off a
whang, and put a bit of beef on it.at whang, n.1
Sydney Monitor 18 Jan. 4/1: Thus, between smoking, raising the wind, eating, sleeping, and love making, they pass through this valley of tears.at raise the wind (v.) under raise, v.
Sydney Monitor 18 Jan. 4/1: [A] calanes hat, with a silk hadkerchief [sic] tied under it, in the most slang fashion possible.at slang, adj.
Sydney Monitor 26 Oct. 2/2: Bushrangers [...] They bailed up the overseer and then [...] proceeded to the house of Mrs F. and ordered her to open her chests &c., from which they took a roll of banknotes.at bail up, v.
Sydney Monitor 20 Apr. 4/4: [A] fortnight after plaintiff arrived in Demerara witness saw him on one of the public wharfs very ‘cherry-merry’ (loud laughter - that was, pretty drunk).at cherry-merry, adj.
Sydney Monitor 15 June 2/3: Those dens of impurity, the sly grog huts [...] are portraits, practical scenes, of the low brothels of Wapping and Portsmouth.at sly-grog, n.
Sydney Monitor 27 Mar. 4/2: [T]hey joined chorus to the cant words of ‘Nix my Dolly, palls, fake away,’ (an old cracksman’s song of the last century).at cracksman, n.1
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