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Sth Australian (Adelaide) 17 May 2/3: On account of the ‘rib-roasting’ with which we felt it neccesary to visit him.at rib-roasting (n.) under rib roast, v.
Sth Australian (Adelaide) 17 May 2/3: On account of the ‘rib-roasting’ with which we felt it neccesary to visit him. South Australian (Adelaide) 15 May17/4: [from London press] Beggars tramp about from town to town [...] Every tramper is accompanied by his fancy girl or his wife.at fancy girl, n.
South Australian (Adelaide) 15 May4/3: [from London press] They [i.e. travelling thieves] tell each other what houses are ‘good’.at good, adj.1
South Australian (Adelaide) 15 May4/2: [from London press] The scheme, unless the concern be a put-up one, is generally concocted by some of the swell mob.at put-up, adj.
South Australian (Adelaide) 15 May4/3: [from London press] Travelling tinkers make sham gold rings out of old brass buttons.at sham, adj.
South Australian (Adelaide) 15 May4/2: [from London press] Beggars tramp about from town to town; there is a new lodging house for travellers in every village; they tell people that they are travelling to find work.at traveller, n.
South Australian (Adelaide) 15 May4/2: [from London press] If they suppose a man to be a raveller (travelling thief) they will come up to him and say [etc.].at traveller, n.
‘Voice from San Francisco’ in Sth Australian (Adelaide) 3 June 4/3: A big buck nigger (as the Yankees call him) got up for the occasion, in their peculiar roseate hue style, is the genius of complacency.at buck nigger (n.) under buck, adj.1
Sth Aus. Wkly (Adelaide, SA) 29 Dec. 6/5: [from ‘Liverpool paper’] [I]f by accident a pupil is ‘legged’ — a slang term for being taken by the police — he must take care to have performed his work in such a manner as to avoid being come at by legal evidence.at lag, v.2
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