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[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 35: A firebug in old Parramatta, / Was really as mad as a hatter.
at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 37: A congenial lady of Shelly / Was loved by a lad from Clovelly, / Two blokes from Clyde, / The Ryde footy side - / Gawd, she was game as Ned Kelly.
at ...Ned Kelly under game as..., adj.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 57: At the height of his lapse / He forgot about traps, / One sprang. He came home less a bollock.
at ballock, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 72: Kate, a colleen of Killarney, / Was full of the charm and the blarney.
at blarney, n.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 46: Making free with her tail / To the young bloods of Sale.
at blood, n.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 76: To a musicale up at Ubobo / There blew in a battered old hobo.
at blow in, v.2
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 82: He gave him a bonk with a mallet.
at bonk, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 59: On alternate nights / Slips into tights / And is buxom and bouffant and booby.
at booby, adj.2
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 97: But by using his noodle, / He’s oodles of boodle.
at boodle, n.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 29: Some boozers in old Hartley Vale / Brewed some very fine ale.
at boozer, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 39: A dirty old man of Tarcutta / Was an unregenerate rutter; / He’d pester a girl / To give him a burl — / His devotion to rutting was utter.
at give it a burl (v.) under burl, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 83: Till the rector one night / Found him ’orribly tight. / Chock-a-block with a young catechewman.
at chockablock, adj.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 79: She enjoyed a good drop / And was very co-op / With locals like Tom, Dick and Jerry.
at co-op, adj.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 99: At all the wine shows / He would savour the nose - / And with only the tip of his konk up.
at conk, n.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 49: For over .05 in Dimboola / A hoofer was clapped in the coola.
at cooler, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 48: There was an old coot of Culloden / Who felt he was being down-trodden.
at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 89: [S]he’s asked to all the best dings.
at ding, n.7
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 39: A dirty old man of Tarcutta / Was an unregenerate rutter.
at dirty old man, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 99: A boastful old drover / Said he did her over.
at do over, v.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 79: But he did know his wine / When they asked him to dine - / A welcome free loader and dosser.
at dosser, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 74: A hard and fast girl of Southport.
at fast, adj.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 35: A firebug in old Parramatta, / Was really as mad as a hatter.
at fire-bug (n.) under fire, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 46: There was a young floosy of Boosey / Who could hardly be said to be choosey.
at floozy, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 15: A fresher who came up from Hall, / [...] / Up the garden was led / By a bibulous med.
at fresher, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 51: A redhead from Indigo Upper / Had all the boys trying to tup her; / Three from Gerogery / She told ‘Go to boggery - / There’s a gang bang at Wang with hot supper!’.
at gangbang, n.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 63: A pretty young playboy in Yea / Decided he’d like to go gay.
at go gay (v.) under gay, adj.
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 22: A circus performer of Breeza / Was a notably nimble old geeza.
at geezer, n.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 30: A weirdo in old Kirribilli / Was gone on a (four-footed) filly.
at gone on (adj.) under gone, adj.1
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 73: She preyed [sic] men would squeeze her / And tease her to please her, / And even go further and goosa.
at goose, v.3
[Aus] Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 109: But when the chap said / ‘Let’s hop into bed,’ / Her answer was ‘No hanky-panky’.
at hankypanky, n.
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