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Register (Adelaide) 11 Oct. 8/3: My cheese ran into punse Bell the ither [sic] day, and the first thing he said was I had a fellow who would go bail for your husband, but I did not know where to find you.at cheese, n.2
Register (Adelaide) 11 Oct. 8/3: My cheese ran into punse Bell the ither [sic] day, and the first thing he said was I had a fellow who would go bail for your husband, but I did not know where to find you. Register (Adelaide) 11 Oct. 8/3: My cheese ran into punse Bell the ither [sic] day, and the first thing he said was I had a fellow who would go bail for your husband, but I did not know where to find you.at poonce, n.
Register (Adelaide) 13 June 8/6: one gentleman made reference to the imported Vermont ram as the ‘concertina sheep’.at concertina, n.2
Register (Adelaide) 13 July 4/6: Even when a house looks a sure cop we have to be ready [...] to meet a man with a gun [...] on the lookout for us gents.at sure cop (n.) under cop, n.2
Register (Adelaide) 13 July 4/6: We’ve cracked a few cribs already.at crack, v.2
Register (Adelaide) 13 July 4/6: I’ll be off with a nice little swag to a ‘fence’ I know.at fence, n.1
Register (Adelaide) 13 July 4/6: All I’m afraid of is that some Melbourne cove will get on to our lurk and come across to nark the game.at lurk, n.
Register (Adelaide) 13 July 4/6: All I’m afraid of is that some Melbourne cove will get on to our lurk and come across to nark the game.at nark the lurk (v.) under nark, v.1
Register (Adelaide) 10 Aug. 6/7: tanami / Prospectors En Route / Opening Up The Track.at Track, the, n.
Register (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 10/3: I’ll take a ‘leather’, but I won’t touch ‘reds‘ or a ‘block’.at block, n.5
Register (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 10/3: You don’t want to ‘crust’ me. ‘Crusting’ me is no good to you. Catch me square dinkum and I’ll plead guilty.at crust, v.
Register (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 10/3: You had me ‘square dinkum’ at the Morphetville races, but you couldn’t find the square dinkum bloke.at fair dinkum, adj.
Register (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 10/3: You had me ‘square dinkum’ at the Morphetville races, but you couldn’t find the square dinkum bloke.at fair dinkum, adv.
Register (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 10/3: There was thirteen quid in that pogue.at pogue, n.2
Register (Adelaide) 4 Jan. 10/3: I’ll take a ‘leather’, but I won’t touch ‘reds‘ or a ‘block’.at red, n.
Register (Adelaide) 23 Jan. 6.5: [of a batsman] He had an able partner [...] who smacked up 140 [runs], and remained not out.at smack up, v.
Register (Adelaide) 5 Apr. 7/1: Now I will try to show how the scrub cocky lives, his daily routine, his domestic utility [...] and his many peculiarities.at scrub cockie (n.) under scrub, n.2
Register (Adelaide) 25 Nov. 6/7: ‘Come on, off yer perch!’ ‘It’s my sister,’ ‘Oh, yer sister! Shove ’er in!’.at shove, v.
Register (Adelaide) 4 June 12/7: Birdnesting boys, when they find a sparrow’s nest, pull it to pieces, and smash the eggs, saying ‘It’s only a sprigs’.at sprig, n.2
Register (Adelaide) 26 Aug. 8/4: The Premier made it clear [...] there was to be no shandygaff compromise.at shandygaff, n.
Register (Adelaide) 20 May 8/7: Previous to his being locked up for a week he had been ‘wagging’ from school.at wag, v.
Register (Adelaide) 29 Dec. 3/3: Imshi is Gippy for ‘clear out‘ or ‘get away’’.at gippy, adj.
Register (Adelaide) 29 Dec. 3/3: Tommy’s slang is largely derived from Hindustani [...] ‘put some jildi into it’ meaning ‘hurry up’.at jildi, n.
Register (Adelaide) 16 Mar. 4/7: ‘Gawd stiffen the bees!’ croaked ‘Old Booze’.at stiffen the lizards! (excl.) under stiffen, v.1
Register (Adelaide) 24 May 3/4: ‘Wayback Teachers‘ [...] The Minister will sanction no appointment of teachers to ‘way-back’ schools who are not at least 20 years of age.at wayback, n.
Register (Adelaide) 18 Jan. 6/5: Later on a storm of boo-hooing and apoplajuse greeted an interjection of, ‘Why are you not at the front?’ Mr Anstey — I’ll tell you why. A Voice— You cold footer.at cold footer (n.) under cold, adj.
Register (Adelaide) 8 Feb. 9/4: Casey approached him and said:— ‘I’ll have you on.’ You are no gentleman’.at have someone on, v.2
Register (Adelaide) 25 Jan. 5/3: At my first visit to Pompoota three men were pointed out to me as a ‘never sweat’ gang.at neversweat (n.) under sweat, v.2
Register (Adelaide) 20 Dec. 7/3: [He] made very strong remarks on the effect of ‘dope’ on soldiers. he said drink was a curse to the sick soldiers [...] I am down on dope shops.at dope, n.1
Register (Adelaide) 24 May 5/6: There is the incessant stream of nomadic Murray whalers—usually splendid fellows, but not always so.at Murrumbidgee whaler (n.) under Murrumbidgee, n.
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