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[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 16 Jan. 2/5: The Council mean bizz.
at biz, n.1
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 5 June 2/7: [T]he Half Holidayites are a lot of cocktails [...] they ought to have turned up for the last match of the season.
at cock-tail, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 22 May 2/7: ‘Yarra’ disburses eye water, together with a lovely bowl, either wholesale or retail.
at eyewater (n.) under eye, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 4 Sept. 2/7: The Euston shed challenged us, but funked at the last moment.
at funk, v.2
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 3 July 2/7: [Tthere is to be another valedictory hop on Friday.
at hop, n.1
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 6 Mar. 2/5: ‘Oh ’Arry’ wasn’t in it for language.
at in it, adj.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 19 June 2/7: The dance on Friday will be up to the knocker.
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 3 July 2/7: [T]he Canally boys intend their social to be a regular ‘knock out’.
at knockout, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 16 Jan. 2/5: They Say [...] That leather i.e. a cricket ball] hunting is conducive to bad language.
at leather, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 13 Nov. 4/4: Several dogs lost the number of their mess.
at lose the number of one’s mess (v.) under lose, v.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 17 Apr. 2/7: [T]he said young monkeys use chrysanthemum plants for whips [...] they want such whips laying across their backs.
at monkey, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 13 Nov. 4/4: The ‘old man’ ought to keep his peepers open.
at peeper, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 20 Mar. 2/7: [Y]ou can only get twenties to one about tbe Balranald Handicap [...] at that price it is only taken in ‘Roberts’.
at robert, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 23 jan. 2/5: Mac’s English draught beer is excellent [...] the first hogshead went off like smoke.
at like smoke (adv.) under smoke, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 9 Jan. 2/6: They Say [...] That ‘Jack’ Clifford can spin a snake yarn with tho next.
at snake yarn (n.) under snake, n.1
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 19 June 2/7: [T]he Army had a ‘fowl struggle supper’ [...] the spread was called by that name in their advertisement.
at struggle, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 27 Nov. 2/6: A ‘tall’ breach of promise case is pending.
at tall, adj.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 13 Nov. 4/4: He pitched a few cuffers, / And ‘had’ a few duffers, / But now he is doing his time.
at do time (v.) under time, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 15 May 2/7: Harry Hearle cannot make ‘tucker’ out of his contract for limestone metal [...] the last man who did it [...] could hardly make it pay.
at tucker, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 23 Sept. 2/4: Donelly did not play worth a cent. [...] [E]veryone asked ‘what the Dickens was up with him’.
at worth a cent under worth a..., phr.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 6 May 2/6: Our girls say they hada ‘boss’ time, whatever that is.
at boss, adj.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 24 June 2/4: [W]e certainly want something to while away the long winter nights [...] a Cinderella. Social would be a good idea.
at Cinderella, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 7 Oct. 2/4: They Say [...] That a gentleman visited a lady. That lie was ‘foxed.’ That the foxer was also foxed.
at fox, v.2
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 30 Dec. 2/6: [A] young scorcher came up to win the bicycle race [...] he looked like a real ‘go’er’ too.
at goer, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 25 Nov. 2/7: [T]he young couple received a good tin-kettling from sundry ‘kids’.
at kid, n.1
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 9 Sept. 2/5: The Euston knights of the willow are again on the war path.
at ...the willow under knight of the..., n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 17 June 2/4: [A] lady and gentleman had a fight [...] the she-male came off best with the aid of a hammer.
at she-male, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 1 Jan. 2/6: The spieler element was conspicuous by its absence.
at spieler, n.
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 2 Sept. 2/7: [A] tennis club has been formed in Balranald [...] the sub is, gents’ 5s, ladies’ 2s 6d pnr annum.
at sub, n.1
[Aus] Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 24 Mar. 2/5: [I]t tried hard to rain on Sunday morning, but dismally failed. That there must be a Jonah in the town.
at jonah, n.
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