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[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 49: I went there yesterday morning and was denied access [...] He was very aggro.
at aggro, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 108: ‘Just ordinary, everyday arselicking is appropriate’.
at arse-licking (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 40: ‘You pompous fucking arsehole’.
at arsehole, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 1: [T]he Indigenous kid who’d come halfway to thinking Hirsch wasn’t the bashing kind.
at bash, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 3: ‘Not to mention my bathers and best bra.’ ‘Bathers?’ said Hirsch. [...] ‘Water aerobics. Redruth pool’ .
at bathers, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 326: Huddled insidea coat, scarf and beanie.
at beanie, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 83: [N]o one had a beef with the Ayliffes.
at beef, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 322: ‘Clara’s here. She’s been on a bender, must’ve walked home from the pub’.
at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 218: ‘[I]t was his load and he was the driver. We’ll throw the book at him’.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 343: ‘I live for the day I’m just a nobody again, back teaching the bubs’.
at bub, n.3
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 366: ‘Hurts like biuggery’.
at like buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 299: It was a bummer [...] that Cater still hadn’t admitted, in front of witnesses, to being at Maggie Groote’s house.
at bummer, n.4
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 144: ‘Given the flick by Mrs Ayliffe so he takes it out on the daughter, which pushes Leon Ayliffe’s button’.
at press someone’s button(s) (v.) under button, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 184: Here was a nasty old chancer, a wheeler and dealer at the most miserable level of commerce.
at chancer, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 26: He patted his pockets, pulled out tobacco, papers and a match, settling in for a chinwag.
at chinwag, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 231: ‘I did not come down in the last shower’.
at come down in the last shower (of rain) (v.) under come, v.1
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 302: ‘Enter a pair of Irish conmen’.
at con-man, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 6: [R]eports of a pair of Irish roof repairers floating around the district—A con?
at con, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 33: Hirsch [...] recorded time, date, location, persons present, the circumstances that had led to the involvement of South Australia police. Arse covering.
at cover (some)one’s ass (v.) under cover, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 40: ‘What a cunt act, humiliating a kid like that’.
at cunt, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 38: ‘It started with that deadshit Quinlan’.
at deadshit, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 361: ‘If I’d wanted to hit you, you’d be dead,’ Ayliffe said. Dickhead.
at dickhead, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 358: The driver had made a meal out of turning around in the narrow space [...] Hirsch made his own dog’s breakfast of turning around.
at dog’s dinner, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 155: Hirsch idly wondered if the kids would have gone skinny-dipping.
at skinny-dip, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 297: ‘Ran off like the dog he is’.
at dog, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation [ebook] [O]n Canowie Place, he’d eventually nab the snowdropper.
at snow-dropper, n.
‘[W] [Aus] G. Disher Consolation 3: ‘[W]ho’d want to steal an old lady’s underwear?’ ‘It’s called snowdropping,’ Hirsch said.
at snow-dropping, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 230: ‘I touch the doorknob and it is effing hot’.
at effing, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 269: He recieved one text [...] Came in, collected her things, left. End of.
at end of (n.) under end, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Consolation 160: ‘I asked if I could meet Adrian’s representative up there, so I could eyeball the units’.
at eyeball, v.
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