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The Currency Lad choose

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[Aus] ‘Naval Anecdotes’ in Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: I was reg’larly a tauntoo, every thing taut fore-and-aft, and yards squared with Moses, (for you see I’d a Newland for ten [i.e. pounds] in the letter) .
at Abraham Newland, n.
[Aus] ‘Naval Anecdotes’ in Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: I’m none o’ your arguficators — none o’ your long-winded lawyers.
at argufy, v.
[Aus] ‘Naval Anecdotes’ in Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: I powders my pate, and claps on a broad-brimm’d chopper clean over all.
at chopper, n.5
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: ‘Ye hoye there, coachee,’ says I.
at coachy, n.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, off he flies [...] and clinches a place in a crack.
at in a crack under crack, n.1
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Tip us your daddle.
at tip us your daddle under daddle, n.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, there was the younker, singing out like a soger.
at jiffy, n.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: A methody parson.
at Methody, adj.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, the first thing (in course) I does, was to make for old Moses’ slop-shop, and to search for a suit of shore-going togs.
at Moses, n.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: I couldn’t make play in my togs, or palaver any of the passengers to lend me a fist.
at palaver, v.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: [A] black long-tailed coat, towing over my taffel with a sky-scraper cape.
at sky-scraper, n.1
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, the first thing (in course) I does, was to make for old Moses’ slop-shop, and to search for a suit of shore-going togs.
at slops, n.1
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, there was the younker, singing out like a soger.
at younker, n.
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 12 Jan. 3/3: Biddy Newman was also accused of being extremely all-overish in the streets [...] ‘Me drunk!’ exclaimed Biddy, turning up her eyes with astonishment.
at all-overish, adj.1
[Aus] Currency Lad (Sydney) 27 Apr. 2: We shall do it as cheap as any of them. This is what is vulgarly called ‘speaking Spanish’, but it is the best way to be understood [AND].
at speak Spanish (v.) under Spanish, n.
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