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[Aus] Wellington Times (NSW) 17 Sept. 5/2: Look out for Foley’s advertisement next week. It’s to be a ‘bonsor’.
at boncer, n.
[Aus] Wellington Times (NSW) 30 Aug. 2/3: According to the ‘Bagman’s Gazette’ good rain fell all over the district.
at bagman’s gazette, the (n.) under bagman, n.
[Aus] Wellington Times (NSW) 11 Dec. 6/4: I was independent of any baker, and could cook myself a damper, splitter, or bugger, on the coals.
at buggers-on-the-coals (n.) under bugger, n.1
[Aus] Wellington Times (NSW) 22 Mar. 19/4: When in the mood they are real swallow catchers, but other times they are real donkeys in a race.
at swallow-catcher, n.
[Aus] Wellington Times (NSW) 28 Aug. 2/4: Boy Cyclists Must Not ‘Double-Bank’ Any small boy who gives his pal a lift on his bicycle will be liable to prosecution under a new regulation being drafted. It will make ‘double-banking’ on bicycles a traffic offence.
at double-bank, v.
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