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Adelaide Obs. (SA) 20 June 4/1: An expression used by the prisoner Whitehouse on his receiving sentence has rather puzzled the knowing ones [...] It was ‘Two tres and an ace,’ and was supposed to refer to himself and Williams as the small cards, and to White as the larger. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 8 May 2/2: He had certificates of character to shew that ‘he was all there,’ which his Worship declined perusing, by saying, with much
gravity, ‘No, I'm much obliged to you’. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 19 Feb. 2/4: [T]he less lucky votaries of the blind Goddess are compelled to tramp to town, each laden with his indispensable blanket, termed, in the slang of the Gold-field, his ‘swag,’ and with tin pot, revolver, and fossicking knife. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 2/6: Our friend of to-day sees a kid, not a child. / And he never g-ts steady, he draws the thing mild. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 2/6: For a scolding he always comes in far a wigging, / A rowing, a jawing, a lipping, or rigging. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 2/6: For a scolding he always comes in far a wigging, / A rowing, a jawing, a lipping, or rigging. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 2/6: For a scolding he always comes in far a wigging, / A rowing, a jawing, a lipping, or rigging. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 2/6: For a scolding he always comes in far a wigging, / A rowing, a jawing, a lipping, or rigging. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 17 Mar. 2/7: Drab [...] is the : best colour for our riflemen, inasmuch as if it be not ‘flashy’ or ‘flare up’ (I use the term which slang maketh current in our language). Adelaide Obs. (SA) 26 May 5/1: We [...] would gladly see suec words as ‘loafer,’ ‘dollop,’ ‘stuck up,’ ‘shicer,’ &c, excluded from the colonial vocabulary. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 9 Mar. 2/8: [from Punch, London] [W]e have prigged a precious sight of gimcracks, and boned some valuable toggery. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 17 Mar. 6/8: [from Notes & Queries, London] Chalker, London Slang fob Milkman [...] This expressive synonym f [...] has never, I believe, yet found its way into any slang dictionary. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 2 Nov. 4/1: [T]he hot wind and the clouds of dust [...] were blowing about [...] We therefore had what our colonial boys, who, we are sorry to
say, have a wonderful liking for slang, would call a regular ‘buster’. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 26 Sept. 11/1: Those evils they described under the slang expression of ‘land-sharking’ [...] men who did not want [the land] but desired to make something out of the class that did, — either by way of black mail or robbery, or chicanery, or whatever else it might be called. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Dec. 14/2: ‘[Y]ou brandy-blossomed Dutch barrel’. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 19 July 22/5: [M]y friend [...] ordered a ‘four’ of whisky, and explained to me that ‘nobblers’ were unknown at home, and that I must ask for sixpennyworth or fourpennyworth, commonly called a ‘six’ or a ‘four,’ when I wanted spirits in a public-house or bar. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 19 July 22/5: [M]y friend [...] ordered a ‘four’ of whisky, and explained to me that [...] I must ask for sixpennyworth or fourpennyworth, commonly called a ‘six’ or a ‘four,’ when I wanted spirits in a public-house. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 25 Dec. 1/3: [P]ossibly the Morphettville running between Sir Charles, Silverthread, and Aurora may disclose the real pea for at least two of the Adelaide Racing Club handicaps. Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 8/3: What is more to the purpose, there will be Inspectors having the right to scent out bad grog and punish the groggist . Adelaide Obs. (SA) 17 Nov. 40/1: Many girls who have been injudiciously allowed to go to small dances have been known to put off their ‘coming out’ as long as they possibly could, simply that they might make the most of their comparative liberty. Careful mothers recognise this, and very wisely discountenance these ‘flapper’ dances.