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Punch (Melbourne) 8 Oct. 8/2: Look at the Pholly girls, victims of kangaroo hops, Roman falls, Grecian bends, and all the other atrocities of fashion.at kangaroo hop (n.) under kangaroo, n.1
Punch (Melbourne) 8 Oct. 8/2: Look at the Pholly girls, victims of kangaroo hops, Roman falls, Grecian bends, and all the other atrocities of fashion. Punch (Melbourne) 27 July 3/1: Pat had dug it all up, put the seed in [...] put lots of strings across [...] with little bits of red rag to frighten the ‘spaggers’ away.at spagger, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 16 Aug. 133/1: ? On this line (the southern) there have been too many shows lately. [...] Florrie Russell, Mrs. Hydes (Miss Madge Herrick) and Miss Melrose, is going back into Victoria after?? doing a freeze round here. They played ‘East Lynne’ here last Wednesday, but as Clara Stephenson had played the watering-pot piece only three or four days before, the result was a £4 house .at do a freeze (v.) under freeze, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 16 Aug. 133/1: ?On this line (the southern) there have been too many shows lately. Clara Stephenson, supported by Madame Sceri, Miss Barry Lane and Messrs. Charley Burford, Wills, Palmer, Henri and some other half-dozen stars, is doing a perish up here.at do a perish (v.) under perish, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 4 Dec. 19: [headline] [They] fully ready-up all the incidents with a
view to the perfect safety of the Coming King.at ready up, v.
Punch (Melbourne) 15 May 5/2: ‘I’m full up to the neck. Why, I’ve had such an all-right blow-out that you could crack a flea on my stummick!’.at could crack a flea on (v.) under flea, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 15 Sept. 14: He so completely depicts the manner of a low, despicable boozican, a walking beer barrel, one that will die in the gutter.at boozician, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 7 Apr. 4/1: It was a brother of Gordon Sprigg who introduced sparrows into Australia – hence the Australian boys’ familiar term for sparrows is ‘spriggies’.at sprig, n.2
Punch (Melbourne) 2 Nov. 37/1: Many of the members of the American vaudeville company which recently struck New Zealand and did a ‘freeze’ had to pay their own fares hack to ’Frisco.at do a freeze (v.) under freeze, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/1: Yercudn’t ’old ther greasy ball, and yercudn’t bounce ther bladder, and yercudn’t run, and yercudn’t do nuthink.at bladder, n.2
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/2: They cudn’t ply a fair and onerst gime if they wos paid fer it; they [...] ’ad squared ther umpire. It was red ’ot.at red-hot, adj.
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/2: Me and Jidder went up and ’it ther umpire on ther jor. Strike me pritty, in ’arf a second I sor stars, and ther blokes dragged Jidder orf with a nose liker prize turnip.at strike me handsome! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/1: It got their nark up w’en they sor us drivin’ up there aile in kerridges. Tried ter sling orf ’cos we wos a bit flash .at get one’s/the nark (up) (v.) under nark, n.1
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/2: Baldy passed ’im one, as fair a bump’s I ever seen.at give someone one (v.) under one, n.1
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/2: her goal-kicker wanted ter tike ther ball ‘ome and show it to ‘is tart to let ‘er see ‘e ‘ad touched it; ‘e wudn’t drop it, so Baldy passed ‘im one, as fair a bump’s I ever seen.at pass (someone) one (v.) under pass, v.
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/2: They cudn’t ply a fair and onerst gime if they wos paid fer it; they [...] ’ad squared ther umpire. It was red ’ot.at square, v.
Punch (Melbourne) 4 Jan. 11/2: ‘Who’re yer callin’ tripe face? I’ll biff yer in the blanky jaw!’ .at tripe-face (n.) under tripe, n.1
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 4/2: Our ruck was abeowt as rapid as a school kid goin’ inter ther ’ead’s room to ’ave six cuts for waggin’ it.at wag, v.
Punch (Melbourne) 9 May 35/1: ‘What do yer think of 'em?’ ‘They’re just the juicy chop,’ murmured the St. Kilda barracker [...] ‘They’re the limit’.at just the juicy chop under chop, n.2
Punch (Melbourne) 9 Jan. 2/4: Descending to our matter-of-fact Melbourne, we find the Salvos are mighty strong, but it is in business, not religion.at Salvo, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 9 Dec. 5/1: More people have been drowned while some idiot of a man was trying to induce a boof-headed tyke to go to the rescue than were ever saved by the intervention of our wretched friend, Carlo.at boofhead, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 11 Feb. 35/3: On Wednesday evening, 17th February, the Hawthorn Club hold their annual carnival by the aid of the fitful gleams from the incandescent lights and a supply of Yanyean.at Yan Yean, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 7 July 2/3: Let us hope his Boy Scouts are real bonzah.at bonzer, adj.
Punch (Melbourne) 2 June 14/4: ‘I’m jist plucked; I ain’t got a cent left t’ crack a flea on ’n’ I’m right down upset at the idea of a free-born Amurkan citizen goin’ plumb into heaven without a dime in his pocket’.at not enough to crack a flea on (adj.) under flea, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 23 Feb. 2/1: He was resolved to put
drunkenness down, and choked up the
gaol with the poor boozicans.at boozician, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 2 Feb. 2/1: About thirty Bishops who have resigned Colonial Sees are in England. Most of them must be called ‘Returned Empties’.at returned empty, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 30 Sept. 519/1: These boof-headed Teutons will continue to entertain high opinions of themselves [...] but, in reality, they are blunderers of the worst sort.at boofhead, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 27 Jan. 6/3: ‘Come, come, Colonel,’ said one of the group, doubtfully, ‘isn’t that a bit tough?’.at bit tough, a (adj.) under tough, adj.
Punch (Melbourne) 17 May 8/6: ‘Boshterina’ Billie Burke quite emulates the title an enthusiastic Sydney pressman bestowed upon her.at boshterino/boshterina (n.) under boshter, n.
Punch (Melbourne) 22 Nov. 11/4: A pert Australian answered him. ‘Garrt, can’t yeh see? We’re goin’ shootin’ spriggies!’ But the English did not know a spriggie was a sparrow, so, the joke was lost on them.at sprig, n.2
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