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[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 19 OPct. 2/3: The amusing, side-splitting farce entitled ‘The Susquehanna Snob Shop’.
at snob, n.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Dec. 2s/1: The Jibber’s a daisy. / She’d beat ’em all aisy.
at jibber, n.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Dec. 2s/1: She would not be stopped and / The ‘oofish’ was dropped.
at oof, n.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Dec. 2s/1: McCarthy, O’Connor, / And Jockey McDonagh, Arranged with the ‘bookies’ to ‘stiffen’ the nag.
at stiffen, v.1
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 4 Dec. 4/1: In one of the public offices there used to be messenger who was pretty frequently sent for beer, to ‘run the rabbit,’ as the saying is.
at run the rabbit (v.) under rabbit, n.2
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 10 Dec. 18/2: The meeting, however, bowled Mr Miller down, and [...]the public carried the motion.
at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser IVic.) 21 Sept. 2/6: The is Albie Hammond’s hut. I came in here for a snore off.
at snore-off, n.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 11 Oct. 5/3: A snore-off. Hill was asleep in the car.
at snore-off, n.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 25 Apr. 6/3: ‘Spare me days,’ quoth William, ‘a bloke must be in the “dings”!’.
at in the dingbats under dingbats, n.
[Aus] Morwell Advertiser (Vic.) 2 July 7/2: [headline] Fined Extra Fiddley For Non Appearance [...] As Farrell failed to appear the Bench tacked an extra 20/- on to the usual fine of 40/-.
at fiddley(-did), n.
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