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Eve. Post (Wellington) 15 Apr. 2: Other implements of gambling. Among them was a false die or, in the ‘speelers’ slang, a ‘messenger.’ [DNZE].at messenger, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 15 Apr. 2: Other implements of gambling. Among them was a false die or, in the ‘speelers’ slang, a ‘messenger.’ [DNZE]. Eve. Post (Wellington) 7 Jan. 17: A man had paid his shilling in a game of ‘shilling in and the winner shouts’ [AND].at shilling in (and the winner shouts) (n.) under shilling, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Apr. 1: ‘Baldy! was a rank Warrigal.at baldy, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Mar. 2/7: [In New York] ‘Dinky Dink’ is slang for the cold shoulder.at dinky-dink, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Apr. 1: Once he carried off two young gins.at gin, n.1
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Mar. 2/7: When a girl [in New York] says of a man that he is ‘a perfect it’ she means he lacks those qulities which would make him interesting.at it, n.1
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Apr. 1: I was jackerooing on Mangoburra.at jackaroo, v.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Apr. 1: [of Aborigines] There were niggers about, and we used to have them as shepherds.at nigger, n.1
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Apr. 1: He was getting so daring that we decided to pill him first pop.at pill, v.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Apr. 1: He was getting so daring that we decided to pill him first pop.at pop, n.1
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Mar. 2/7: [In New York] the most graphic bit of slang of all is that which sums up a conceited young man as follows [...] ‘he does think himself such an awfully warm baby’.at warm baby (n.) under warm, adj.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 9 Mar. 2/7: [In New York] If he bores her very much, he gives her ‘the willies’, an experience which can also be communicated by a sudden shock.at willies, n.
Eve. Post (NZ) 2 Dec. 2/5: Right, cockey, I’m only waiting for buller and some more of your cats-meat.at cat’s meat, n.
Eve. Post (NZ) Supp. 27 Dec. 1/3: The great man was requested to ‘hold his tongue for a bletherin’ idiot’.at blithering, adj.
Eve. Post (NZ) Supp. 27 Dec. 1/4: All right, young man, keep your hair on.at keep one’s hair on, v.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 23 Mar. 5: [advert] This Week’s Programme a ‘Boshker’.at bosker, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 3 Dec. 8: Biggs - ‘Hello, Diggs! Back from Christchurch? Had boncer time, eh?’ Diggs - ‘Oh, bosca time, but I fell in?’.at bosker, adj.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 21 Sept. 7: [advert] That’s where mother got those Pants. I tell you Boshker’s, too!at bosker, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 14 Feb. 8: [T]he Chinese were having a ‘Tai yat’ time - the sort of time that the average Briton calls ‘A1,’ ‘first-class,’ or - the very latest - ‘bosca’ or ‘boshta’.at boshter, adj.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 19 Jan. 3: That ugly word ‘bosca,’ which is not yet accepted by professors of English, and has yet no definite form, appears in several guises - bosko, boshker, boshta, bosca.at bosko, adj.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/3: Martin came quietly as far as the high-street, but then asked what he was being boobed for.at boob, v.1
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/5: A Stolen Chook [...] If he had asked for the ‘chook’ [...] his friend would have given it to him.at chook, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/3: The Parnell peelers were however smarter than the average ‘John Hops’.at john hop, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/3: The Parnell peelers were however smarter than the average ‘John Hops’.at peeler, n.2
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/3: Martin pleaeded guilty to shikkur’osity.at shicker, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/3: Martin had been twice previously convincted for swankiness.at swankiness (n.) under swanky, n.2
Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/5: He walked into Bill Derham’s Victotria Hotel and took a suit of clothes [...] and these again went to ‘Uncle’s’.at uncle, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 17 Apr. 8/7: [caption] ‘Sly Grog-Selling’ [...]The police alleged that Mrs Darby did a large trade in selling liquor.at sly-grog, n.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 17 Apr. 8/6: One of the principle arguments used by the Red Feds against Mr M’Laren [...] is that he sat on a rail during the late strike.at red fed (n.) under red, adj.
Eve. Post (Wellington) 10 Sept. 6: ‘I wish I knew where that kid is now: he was a bonzer!’.at bonzer, n.
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