1832 ‘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.
1832 ‘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.
1832 ‘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
1832 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
1832 Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, there was the younker, singing out like a soger.at jiffy, n.
1832 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.
1832 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.
1832 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
1832 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
1832 Currency Lad (Sydney) 3 Nov. 4/2: Well, there was the younker, singing out like a soger.at younker, n.
1833 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
1833 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.