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[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 614: Col did so at once, to be informed that although Billy was still in the locality, seeing that his donkeys were there, nothing had been seen of him for several days, and it was presumed he was suffering a recovery.
at suffer a recovery, v.
[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 687: Bugger you, Esky-mo, bugger you, bugger you old Brown-and-Malt, bugger you all ... bugger, bugger, bugger!
at bugger you! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 614: What you cookin’ up with old Billy?
at cook up, v.
[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 52: I’m using the term Black Velvet not simply to apply to full-blooded women, but any of obvious aboriginal strain, ‘yeller girls’, or ‘creamy pieces’, as they’re called, half and quarter [GAW4].
at creamy piece (n.) under creamy, n.1
[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 584: ‘You know what they call you?’ ‘Yeah, yeah...the Donk with the Biggest Walloper in the Team’.
at donk, n.1
[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 702: The Scrub Bull, of all people, getting interested in settling the country .
at scrub bull (n.) under scrub, n.2
[Aus] X. Herbert Poor Fellow My Country 838: I want to cook our own damper, too . . . don’t want one of their sods.
at sod, n.2
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