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[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Aug. 4/1: healine] A Parisian Anonyma A lady, supposed to be a Javan, is now setting Paris by the ears.
at anonyma, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 12 Nov. 4/2: [Y]ou gave her to understand that I was a beer guzzler, when you knew full well that for every pint I took you drank three.
at beer-guzzler (n.) under beer, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 27 May 3/2: These ‘fiz-gigs’ are professional criminals of the larcenous type [...] It is the ‘fizgig’ who meets the released prisoner as he emerges front Pentridge and ‘lays him on a good thing.’ [...] As soon as he has stimulated the evil propensities of the robber [...] he betakes himself to the little clique of detectives whose creature he is, and discloses the whole plot.
at fizgig, n.2
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 20 June 3/6: He said he knew how many beans made five without any instructions from interlopers.
at know how many (blue) beans make five (v.) under beans, n.3
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 20 June 3/6: They kicked over the traces altogether -...] since you crossed the big drink.
at big drink (n.) under drink, n.1
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 20 June 3/6: He simply swore at me and said if he caught me in the Commissioner’s office [...] he’d scruff me.
at scruff, v.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 18 July 1/4: Which largesse [...] we expended in a couple of lunches at Roberts’s, where you get — or used to — four courses and a ‘maiden’s-blush’ for a shilling.
at maiden’s blush (n.) under maiden, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 5 June 4/2: ‘Oh strike me up a gutter, I wishes it wor’ eight o’clock’.
at strike me up a gutter! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 20 Sept. 3/6: In the plantation scene [...] he entered into the spirit of his part [...] as a sentimental nigger in his interview with the black trash.
at black trash (n.) under black, adj.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 21 Mar. 3/4: The State wanted to put the leg rope on the Commonwealth lest it should be extravagant in thus expending the money.
at put the leg-rope on (v.) under leg, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 4/1: You’ ve bunked the German nation / With bull-corn as a ration.
at bullcorn (n.) under bull, n.6
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 4/1: You’ ve bunked the German nation / With bull-corn as a ration.
at bunk, v.3
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 4/1: Good-bye Mo, you’re through / [...] / You’re at the jump-off station / So Moham adieu.
at jump off, v.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 4/1: Good-bye Mo, you’re through / [...] / The big razzoo for you.
at big razoo (n.) under razz, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 27 May 3: One of the forced pastimes of the soldier is ‘chatting for chats’.
at chat, v.2
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 27 May 3: The ‘firfie king’ gets in some fine work, and the weird ‘firfies’ that he sets afloat are peaks of imagination.
at furphy, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 11 Sept. n.p.: Mr Stephenson said the Acting Mayor was a ‘tough snag’ to run up against.
at snag, n.3
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 17 May 4/5: There was some talk of committee men having the inside running being able to get an early notmination in a limited dog stake, but that was all ‘in my eye’ in this instance.
at all my eye, phr.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 17 May 4/5: There was some talk of committee men having the inside running being able to get an early notification in a limited dog stake.
at inside running (n.) under inside, adj.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: A tabbie wot wud pull yew on / Wud wanter be well potty, / Or else she’d be wot they call gone, / A shingle short, or dotty.
at shingle short, a, adj.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Aw-cripes, dont pull my leg, / Yer boilin’, are yer? Kiss my cuff!
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Aw! run away, yer silly dope, / Afore I spoils yer decker.
at decker, n.3
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Yew talk ov dishin’ coots, yew fright!
at dish, v.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: A tabbie wot wud pull yew on / Wud wanter be well potty, / Or else she’d be wot they call gone, / A shingle short, or dotty.
at dotty, adj.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Gorblimey, boy [...] / Duck ’ome, an’ do yore ecker.
at eccer, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: A tabbie wot wud pull yew on / Wud wanter be well potty, / Or else she’d be wot they call gone, / A shingle short, or dotty.
at gone, adj.1
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Th’ ’ash ’ouse w’ere I’m stayin’ / Is a decent sorter joint.
at hash-house, n.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Wiv flowers on yer braces, / Yer clever wiv yer coloured ties / [...] / Yer thinks becos yer mockered up / Yer owns th’ bloomin’ country.
at mockered up, phr.
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: A tabbie wot wud pull yew on / Wud wanter be well potty, / Or else she’d be wot they call gone, / A shingle short, or dotty.
at potty, adj.1
[Aus] Gippsland Times (Vic.) 2 Nov. 5/2: Shielers don’t run after looks.
at sheila, n.1
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