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Fetters for Twenty 93: [T]he junior warder heard a warning breath of ‘Arkit-nay’ from the digger next beside Sydney.at arkit-nay, excl.
Fetters for Twenty 93: [T]he junior warder heard a warning breath of ‘Arkit-nay’ from the digger next beside Sydney. Fetters for Twenty 77: ‘I’vew managed to cop a baked potato [...] So we’re having the bakey, and along comes the screw’.at bakey, n.
Fetters for Twenty 77: ‘I wasn’t a Barmy them days, just a green young lag’.at barmy, n.
Fetters for Twenty 77: Then I went back to the Barmy and I never see Yokel no more’ [ibid.] 78: ‘[A] Barmy landing was much the same them days as it is now’.at barmy, n.
Fetters for Twenty 107: ‘Pore basket [...] First time he ever does a right thing in his blinkin’ life’.at basket, n.2
Fetters for Twenty 86: The second man, not being a ‘blue-tab’, always had to stay in sight of the warder.at blue-tab (n.) under blue, adj.1
Fetters for Twenty 87: Needless to say, the ‘blue-tab’ job at the sewage farm was coveted by dozens of convicts.at blue-tab (n.) under blue, adj.1
Fetters for Twenty 25: ‘He reckoned we were too hardboiled to care what he did’.at hard-boiled, adj.
Fetters for Twenty 43: [of prisoners] Cottrell had been lucky. Dead lucky, as the boys put it.at boys, the, n.
Fetters for Twenty 86: They became close friends, ‘stir chinas’ as the jail phrase has it.at stir china under china (plate), n.
Fetters for Twenty 107: ‘No ’arm done, now ’e’s chucked grassin’’.at chuck, v.2
Fetters for Twenty 12: [S]teel clams, the tool for wrenching out safe-hinges.at clam, n.1
Fetters for Twenty 81: After fourteen years on a Barmy landing a feller can’t help talking a bit crackers now and then.at talk crackers (v.) under crackers, adj.
Fetters for Twenty 21: But there’s bound to be trouble if Gloster crowns him.at crown, v.
Fetters for Twenty 95: ‘[T]hat’s why a hard crush like Sixty-three’s a sight easier than a mixed lot like Eighty-nine’.at crush, n.1
Fetters for Twenty 49: ‘One of them, she was [...] been on the ‘Dilly’ for years’.at Dilly, the, n.
Fetters for Twenty 20: Dingo Sam, a lean Australian.at dingo, n.
Fetters for Twenty 15: He talked mostly in polysyllables [...] So the burglars and safe-smashers, liking the sound of the long words, called him Fesser.at fesser, n.
Fetters for Twenty 76: ‘Feeling balck, y’see, because of the No Grounds’.at no grounds, n.
Fetters for Twenty 68: ‘You ain’t on the hook, but every now an’ then it looks as if you was, an’ you gets a penal sentence’.at on the hook under hook, v.1
Fetters for Twenty 83: ‘I don’t get much kick on “The Narrow Way” and books about Hell’.at kick, n.5
Fetters for Twenty 16: Cunning as a sackful of weasels and kinky as a snake with the colic.at kinky, adj.
Fetters for Twenty 89: It was nearly ‘knock-off time’, and work on the farm had finished.at knock-off, n.
Fetters for Twenty 94: ‘It’s [i.e. prison slang] got me licked up to now,’ the junior [warder] confessed.at licked, adj.
Fetters for Twenty 35: There was something approaching awe in the gaze of the young medico.at medico, n.
Fetters for Twenty 37: ‘Always on the side of the pore man, was Hector [...] Always against the big nobs’.at nob, n.2
Fetters for Twenty 79: ‘[A]sking for a snot-rag to wipe his nozzle’.at nozzle, n.
Fetters for Twenty 40: ‘You can stand on Britton. Sound as the Rock of Gibraltar. The more you select the more you collect’.at stand on, v.
Fetters for Twenty 103: ‘Me missus is peggin’ aht. Me nipper’s snuffed it’.at peg out, v.
Fetters for Twenty 75: ‘I was in a padded cell last night. A pad’.at pad, n.2
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