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Aus. Worker (Sydney) 6 May 17/3: The best bacon, the sublimest soap, the boskerest beer, the wonderfullest whisky [etc].at bosker, adj.
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 6 May 17/3: The best bacon, the sublimest soap, the boskerest beer, the wonderfullest whisky [etc]. Aus. Worker (Sydney) 30 Dec. 12/2: ‘Go it, you corker! Let him have it all, you beauty! Oh, you boskerina! Mind his left, Dud!’.at boskerina, n.
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 1 July 13/1: It is about eight years since the sudden death of ‘King Dick’ Seddon threw all New Zealand into mourning. [...] All the same, Seddon's dominating personality retarded the progress of Labor in politics.at king dick, n.2
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 16 Nov. : Drivellers, sending the last of our best / [...] / ‘Would-to-Godders’ who cannot fight.at would-to-Godder, n.
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 17 July 12/2: [photo caption] FORGOT HE HAD A DOG TIED UP. The State Treasurer, warding off ‘Nationalist’ promissory notes, has explained that the surplus announced by Mr. Holman has been eaten up by a deficit.at tie up a dog (v.) under tie, v.
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 1 Apr. 10/5: Possibly, he was suffering fromthat most deadly of all diseases, Cityitis. He has decided that Bushitis is the antidote, and all lovers of [...] memorable literature will hope that the mountains [...] endow him with, the balm of complete physical regeneration.at bushitis (n.) under bush, n.1
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 22 June 13/3: They asked Jerger to permit our most expert ‘dish-twister’ to try the tailings.at dish-twister (n.) under dish, n.1
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 16 Mar. 4/1: Feltie was quite, the smartest hat in the shop. He was perched on a brass stand in the middle of the window.at felty, n.
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 29 Aug. 6/6: Workers in the pastoral industry will remember that every known method was used to extort money from them [...] and maybe they may have preferred a chop-up of any cash which they may have had.at chop-up (n.) under chop, n.1
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 20 Aug. 12/4: O’Connor has never been able to really satisfy himself as to an appropriate name for the class of man who is prepared to bludge on his workmates [...] he has been known to describe these parasites as ‘toads,’ ‘woolly-noses,’ ‘twirps,’ ‘dillpots,’ ‘nit-wits,’ ‘gays’ and ‘scabs’.at gay, n.1
Aus. Worker (Sydney) 26 July 8/1: The gift — or affliction— however, of a notorious ‘brewers’ goitre’ has become a sore embonpoint in New York, where an organisation has been formed by the name of ‘Fatties Anonymous’ to help overweight members.at brewer’s goitre (n.) under brewer’s..., n.
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