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[Ire] Northern Standard 11 Dec. 4/1: An old gentleman in black, with a little white wig and a cock and pinch hat upon his head.
at cock and pinch (n.) under cock, v.4
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 20 Oct. 2/4: How many bottles of whisky go to the gallon before private enterprise [...] takes over the shicker-juice business.
at shicker juice (n.) under shicker, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 19 June 2/5: PODDY DODGING IN THE TERRITORY It is surmised that the poddy dodgers came over with the view of getting a mob of clean skins together.
at poddy-dodging (n.) under poddy dodger, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) 9 Feb. 8/4: The worthless copuntry folks along the line were given a few weeks work with the ‘snake charmers’ mowing the hay from the line.
at snake charmer (n.) under snake, n.1
[Aus] Northern Standard )Darwin, NT_ 2 Dec. 5/3: [headline] Bishop Does a Spruik.
at spruik, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 7 Sept. 28/4: And there on the wide earths face / You make your bed, sleep ill or well, / A guest at the blinking Star Hotel.
at star hotel (n.) under star, n.1
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 22 June 7/3: The Wharfie. I walked to the wharf this morning.
at wharfie, n.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 29 Jan. 2/4: Those boose is slowly passing through my frame.
at frame, n.1
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 29 Jan. 2/4: When I get to Hannah I’ll bet a even tanner / That I sock the blooming boose just once again.
at sock, v.1
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 2 Oct. 9/3: I assured my indignant friend [...] that he had as much hope of getting justice from the type of officialdom then in Darwin as he had of getting a grilled pork chop in a Jewish synagogue.
at as much chance as getting a pork chop in a synagogue under pork chop at a Jewish wedding, phr.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 3 July 7/3: The one [i.e. a lizard] I spoke of last week is a bona — or bonzarina.
at bonzer, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 24 Apr. 3/1: Stott no more talk alonga Fanny ridem horse when she knock up. I savvy Mona and Violet knock up.
at knock up, v.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin) 24 July 10/3: Lack of sufficient fruit and vegetables [...] and a preponderance of tinned dog are said to be responsible for severe dental troubles.
at tin dog (n.) under tin, adj.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 24 Apr. 3/2: Dead Dolly been yacki, ‘Leave me alone, boss, please’ .
at yack, v.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) n.d. 12/2: Ena, Diena, Dina Doe, / Watch the Scabbies, see them go / [...] / Ena, Diena, Dina Doe, / They work when Union men say ‘No’ / No worms on earth as them so low / Though they on their bellies go.
at scab, n.1
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) 8 Mar. 4/2: [W]hen Dr. Cook and the nurse allow a person of his class, teamed up with the old bull merchant, to bolster up their case, they must be in a pretty bad way.
at bull merchant (n.) under bull, n.6
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 25 Jan. 10/4: It was stated defendant walked up to Allwright and struck him over the eye [...] Shadforth, in his defence, said he had had a few drinks and was not responsible for his actions. He had been under the impression Allwright had offered him out.
at offer someone out, v.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 3 May 6/2: As long as he kept off the shypoo he was cock of the roost.
at shypoo, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) 30 Aug. 3/1: Spare me days! The girls need nets now.
at spare my days! under spare, v.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) 1 Nov. 10/4: Chuck’s hunger for a big pay envelope induced him to work a swiftie and take a job out of his turn.
at swiftie, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) 1 Nov. 10/4: Chuck [...] managed to get himself a medal in the wharfies’ union.
at wharfie, n.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 8 Aug. 9/1: A 14-year-old Bathurst (N.S.W.) boy ‘bailed up’ a man of 52 with a toy gun.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 7 Nov. 7: He brought the ’roughie’ home a winner.
at roughie, n.1
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 8 Aug. 9/1: [headline] Juvenile Stick=Up.
at stick-up, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin, NT) 1 Oct. 8/5: To be frank...it was a bit of a bludge.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 21 Jan. 1s/5: Well, I’m home again from Bananaland.
at Bananaland (n.) under banana, n.
[Aus] Northern Standard (Darwin) 5 Feb. 8/1: Prowling Naussie Gets 3 Months Twenty-three year old Anpad Oniga, a Hungarian lately employed at Rum Jungle, was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour [etc].
at naussie, n.
[Aus] North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 9 Dec. 9/3: A pen picture of the meeting between the bushman and the city slicker.
at slicker, n.
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