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Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Feb. 1/4: What will the guyawhacks, spielers, and fence-jumpers do when the Agricultural Society raises the fence.at guy-a-whack, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Feb. 1/4: What will the guyawhacks, spielers, and fence-jumpers do when the Agricultural Society raises the fence. Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Feb. 5/1: [B]y the same composer as ‘Too-aley in the morning,’ or ‘The Beer-jerker’s Boy’.at beer jerker (n.) under beer, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Mar. 4/1: Your Ladyship remembers— What you don’t? / Well s’help my duds.at s’elp me bob!, excl.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 25 Apr. 3/2: Unless you leave off calling our claims baro bush swindles [...] we’ll tar an’ feather tho whole boilin’ pack of you.at whole boiling lot, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 11 Apr. 1/2: When a sober, intelligent citizen has filled up his census paper [...] should he afterwards submit to the dictation of a boozed-up ‘collector?’.at boozed, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Mar. 5/1: He’s but an M.P. of the usual brand / But a boss at litigation.at boss, n.2
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Mar. 2/2: ‘How old are you, Bridget?’ asked a lady of her Irish maid-of-all-work.at bridget, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 4 Apr. 2/3: How doth the bumming ‘used-to-be,’ / Approve each bygone minute.at bum, v.3
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 28 Mar. 4/3: Can Anybody Tell Us [...] How much ‘bumming’ a pro can do when he is really put to it?at bumming, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Feb. 3/2: [H]e intends to give the big fellow a bumper benefit.at bumper, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Mar. 2/3: When the Boss is particularly pleased with a paragraph he slaps one of the boys on the back and says, ‘Ha! ha! Cull, that collars the cracknell!’ or, ‘Bully for you, my boy, that bally well bags the bun’.at take the bun, v.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Feb. 3/3: ‘Wot’s that you say? Here! Chuck it, Yer won't get me on that, / I’m wide awake, old chap, you bet, / Don’t chaw your bloomin’ fat.at chew the fat, v.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 28 Feb. 2/3: Some of our white-chokered gentlemen should bear in mind that if a man serves him faithfully six days in the week the devil doesn’t care much whether he goes to church on Sunday or not.at choker, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Feb. 3/3: ‘Wot’s that you say? Here! Chuck it, Yer won't get me on that.at chuck it!, excl.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 28 Mar. 6/1: When hang me, but some regulation they’d start / Which crabbed all my running straight off.at crab, v.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Feb. 3/3: ‘O, crikey, here’s a go!’.at crikey!, excl.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 14 Feb. 2/3: [I]t was not till the crusty, flat- footed Paddington parent ambled down that he discovered how easily these things can be done.at crusty, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Mar. 4/2: ‘Why, Parkes, that youngster there [...] / As got a daisy crop o’ ’air’.at daisy, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Feb. 3/3: ‘Why don’t you keep it dark’.at dark it (v.) under dark, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Feb. 2/3: ‘By the powers, me bhoy,’ cried Pat, ‘Ye spoke too late!’!at by the powers of Moll Doyle! (excl.) under Moll Doyle, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Feb. 4/2: An’ ‘Nosey,’ as does all the ‘heading ’em’ tricks.at heading ’em, phr.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 28 Feb. 4/1: He'll never refuse if you ask him to dine, / When your Turkey and Phiz he will shunt.at fizz, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 18 Apr. 3/3: The coolness of the Prodigal saved the evening papers from a sensational par, and spared [...] the life of one of the most assiduous gin-wrestlers in the country.at gin-wrestler (n.) under gin, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Feb. 3/3: ‘O, crikey, here’s a go!’.at go, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Mar. 2/2: Go it, you cripples! Any more coming along?at go it!, excl.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 7 Feb. 3/3: No more enjoy your pars and jokes, Nor laugh at hits about such blokes / As Demon Donny (he’s a gonner).at goner, n.1
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 14 Mar. 1/3: How many sly-grog sellers are victimising the 7000 mechanics and navvies at present employed on railway works?at sly-grog, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 28 Feb. 1/3: Can Anybody Tell Us [...] If Sir John Robertson's absence from the Great Federal Guzzle will only mean one ‘drunk’ less?at guzzle, n.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 18 Apr. 3/1: A heavy masher at the Garrick the other night made himself ridiculous in the bar.at heavy, adj.
Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 21 Mar. 2/1: Hush money is what the young husband parts with for soothing syrups, &c.at hush money, n.
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