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[Aus] S. Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide) 14 July n.p.: Sambo, you blacka tied, Sambo, why you betray dat secret I told you.
at sambo, n.1
[Aus] Sth Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) 3 Sept. 3/2: To this terrific ‘piling up of the agony,’ Mr. George Milner Stephen replies by saying ‘you’re another.’ The Herald assumes ‘the dignified,’ and lectures its contemporary upon the impropriety of ‘slang’.
at put on an/the agony (v.) under agony, n.
[Aus] Sth Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) 30 July 3/7: WHAT IS ‘SLOGGING?’ Master Tom (who has been rebuked for making use of school slang) ‘But, Grandma, Slogging is derived from the Greek word slogo — to slaughter, baste, or wollop.
at slog, v.
[Aus] Sth Aus. Advertiser Adelaide) 3 Mar. 3/2: On Tuesday the children of Trinity Day and Sunday schools were regaled with the annual treat of grapes [...] Tea, cakes, nuts, and lollies were also liberally provided.
at lollies, n.
[Aus] Sth Aus. Advertiser 19 Feb. 3/7: The defendant [...] called her a drunken faggot and used other insulting language.
at faggot, n.1
[Aus] S. Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide) 13 Oct. 3/6: Brother jonathan’s Appeal to Brother Sambo. Now, Sambo, darn it - Brother! There, I guess that ought to please you.
at sambo, n.1
[Aus] S. Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide) 13 Oct. 3/6: Brother jonathan’s Appeal to Brother Sambo [...] Up, Niggers! slash, smash, sack and smite, slogdollagise and slay ’em.
at sockdolager, n.
[Aus] Sth Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) 11 Mar. 2/5: [A] slang song book, in which everybody is abused by name in wretched parodies of nigger and other songs.
at nigger, adj.
[Aus] Sth Aus. Advertiser 16 Oct. 3/4: To the Editor [...] I am, Sir, etc, Old Joe, The Bullock Puncher.
at bullock-puncher (n.) under bullock, n.
[Aus] S.A. Advertiser (Adelaide) 4 Apr. 3/7: And, finally, don’t patronise the glover— in other words, do not ‘go in for the gloves’.
at go (in) for the gloves (v.) under glove, n.
[Aus] S. Aus. Advertiser (Adelaide) 30 Nov. 2/5: Mr Macleay [...] called the Attorney General a cabbage gardener and a fenian.
at cabbage garden (n.) under cabbage, n.2
[Aus] S.A. Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 Dec. 7/3: The holiday folk outside seemed to enjoy themselves in their own particular way, the thilling ‘monkey sweeps’ doing a roaring trade, and creating much amusement.
at monkey sweep (n.) under monkey, n.
[Aus] Sth. Aus. Advertiser 18 May 7/3: [of horses] I see the daughter of Chester [is] just 17lb less than Cairo, whom she used to donkey lick as a two-year-old.
at donkey lick, v.
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