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[NZ] Feilding Star 2 May 2: The mushrooms were shown to our runner boy, and he says they are ‘bonsers!’.
at boncer, n.
[NZ] Feilding Star (NZ) 26 Apr. 4: A correspondent (‘Onkus’) waxes jocular on the subject.
at onkus, adj.
[NZ] Feilding Star (N.Z.) 11 Aug. 2/4: Nigger minstrelsy [...] is developing into a fine art [...] The Rongotea Niggers will stage an entertainment of superior quality.
at nigger, n.1
[NZ] Feilding Star (N.Z.) 11 May 2/3: ‘Lizzie’ is versatile [...] the latest achievement of the Queen Elizabeth has been to bring down a German aeroplane.
at lizzie, n.1
[NZ] Feilding Star (N.Z.) 3 Mar. 2/5: A long, hungry, Billjim wandered into the new Australian Y.M.C.A. hut.
at billjim, n.
[NZ] Feilding Star (N.Z.) 3 Mar. 2/5: ‘Hi, Sis!’ he yelled to the hurrying waitress.
at sis, n.
[NZ] Feilding Star (N.Z.) 3 Mar. 2/5: A cobber edged along and told him the attendant he had ‘word-ed’ was [...] the general’s missus.
at word, v.
[NZ] Feilding Star (NZ) 25 Apr. 2/4: He asked me not to play the giddy goat.
at act the (giddy) goat, v.
[NZ] Feilding Star (NZ) 1 ept. 4: Yesterday I was told [...] Feilding was referred to as a place of stumps and cows. [...] I thought it was ‘onkas,’ to use the expression of my native land, to refer to your district in such language.
at onkus, adj.
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