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[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 100: ‘There’s nothing in it, this knocking about with stray tarts,’ said George.
at knock about, v.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 17: ‘I’m not responsible if those chaps act the goat, am I?’.
at act the (giddy) goat, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 155: ‘All serene,’ said Robert. ‘We’ll get across to the Red bridge now, where he can’t follow’ .
at all serene, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 125: ‘Lips, rosy, ambrosial, and a leg - ye gods!’ .
at ye gods (and little fishes)!, excl.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 98: ‘I wasn’t thinking of that, you ass,’ said Hetty.
at ass, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 271: ‘Tell him I had an affair with Teddie Briggs. I did, too, with you footling about after him in this ass of a room’.
at ass, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 71: ‘Sells liquor o’ the sawbeth’ ‘The daughter’s a baggage’.
at baggage, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 195: ‘I’d gie him dodderin’ after the wimmen, when he ought to be trem’lin’ in fear of Almighty Goad, the randy old billy-goat’ .
at billy-goat, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 9: ‘I’m fed up with this blasted rot,’ he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.
at blasted, adj.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 38: ‘Time the old blighter was put on the shelf,’ said Henry, scowling.
at blighter, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 53: ‘Gord blind me eternally if I selp’ a wink orl night.
at blind me!, excl.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 51: ‘T’other’s a man,’ sez I, lyin’ along here like a blinded cripple’ ‘Blind drunk, you mean,’ said the youth on the bed.
at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 70: ‘For two bloomin’ pins I’d clear out and leave the dam’ place for good’ .
at blooming, adj.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 291: ‘I don’t wonder she boozes’.
at booze, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 48: ‘He’s onter me for boozin’. Sees me comin’ out o’ Cassidy’s full as a tick. Eighteen long uns I had’ .
at boozing, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 152: With his candle lit, he remained picking at the grease, in a boozey effort to recall something forgotten.
at boozy, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 105: ‘Buck up, J.B.,’ said Robert. ‘You presume to encourage me,’ said Mr Bandparts, becoming sardonic.
at buck up!, excl.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 9: ‘Silly old bughound,’ muttered Robert.
at bughound, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 168: ‘How’s the bum drama goin’?’ they asked.
at bum, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 279: ‘Go - go to that cat - tell her she can keep you’ .
at cat, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 17: ‘I’m not responsible if those chaps act the goat, am I?’.
at chap, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 46: ‘Here’s me, on and off, chasin’ Maggie Trimble for a year; no more hope of gettin’ it than flyin’’ .
at chase, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 103: ‘If I had a little woman like Mrs. Arnold waiting at home for me I wouldn’t go chasing round after other fellows’ sister, I wouldn’t’ [...] ‘Top of that, he chases after any girl he has a fancy to’.
at chase, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 56: ‘Why the blazes don’t they chuck it?’.
at chuck it, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 172: ‘Any more of it and I chuck going with Jerry Arnold’ .
at chuck, v.2
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 151: As a new-comer in the township, as a cit, and a devotee to beer, Cummings was hailed with interest .
at cit, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 252: ‘Oh, to hell with him anyway,’ he said. ‘He’s only a damned clothes prop’ .
at clothes-peg, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 196: ‘He looks to me like one of the cold-fish brigade’.
at cold fish (n.) under cold, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 44: The Misanthrope, obliterated by this trivial uproar, gloomily collared a cup of coffee and a sandwich and retired to bed.
at collar, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 148: ‘Cripes! Here’s your old man,’ he said.
at cripes!, excl.
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