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Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 14 Sept. 2/8: More was done by the early agitators than we were doing. Earl Grey and the Downing-street gentlemen did not poke ‘borak’ at them.at poke (the) borak (v.) under borak, n.
Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 14 Sept. 2/8: More was done by the early agitators than we were doing. Earl Grey and the Downing-street gentlemen did not poke ‘borak’ at them.![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Star (L.A.) 23 Apr. 4: Minnie rifle, Knock-’em stiff and flaming red-eye—Such as kills ’em at the counter, Forty rods or any distance.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 2 Feb. 2/4: The defendant asked Mary Burgess if she had not before been employed in a ‘grog shanty’ [...] The Police Magistrate desired Mr Burke [...] to use the English language in preference to slang terms.at grog shanty (n.) under grog, n.1
Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 14 June 4/2: Tom has been taken off his pins with ‘rib-roasters’ and ‘jaw-breakers’ before now.at rib roaster, n.
Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 13 Apr. 3/2: To use the slang of his class, it was no go, Her response was a snarl and a poke of her umbrella.at no go, phr.
Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 7 Apr. 4/1: Scrase Brothers, Neave, Cohn Brothers, and all the other firms dealing in what is vulgarly known by the different slang names of ‘sheoak,’ ‘colonial swankey,’ ‘long sleeve,’ &c.at long sleeve (n.) under long, adj.
Star (Ballarat, Vic.) 7 Apr. 4/1: Scrase Brothers, Neave, Cohn Brothers, and all the other firms dealing in what is vulgarly known by the different slang names of ‘sheoak,’ ‘colonial swankey,’ ‘long sleeve,’ &c.at swanky, n.2
Star 25 Oct. 2/4: There was a mock-litany scoundrel or vagabond ballad-singer.at mock litany men, n.
Star 1 Aug. 2/4: A markeed feature [...] was the ‘Mock litany’ ruffians, who [...] drowned each others’ voices in chanting the abominable trash in which they dealt [...] the ‘Mock litany’ men thus obtained a good start.at mock litany men, n.
Star (Guernsey) 3 Aug. 3/6: His Majesty said, as we were approaching, ‘This is O’Connell; Goddamn the scoundrel!’.at god-damn, v.
Star (Guernsey) 12 June 2/4: The Inevitable Gamp [...] without a word of warning his umbrella is whisked up.at gamp, n.
Star (London) 22 Aug. 4/6: What can be more condicive to heat apoplexy than ‘brandy pauny’ and highly curried [...] meats.at brandy-pawnee (n.) under brandy, n.
Star (Guernsey) 17 Nov. 2/5: Solomon Isaacs and Moses Levy are ‘old clo’’ people.at old clo, n.
Star 25 Jan. 3/1: Mr Savage [...] with his catch phrase ‘Easy does it,’ proved a great favourite.at easy does it under easy, adj.
Star Guernsey 14 Aug. 2/4: A certain swindler known as ‘Slippery Sam’.at slippery sam, n.
Star (Auckland) 1 Jan. 2: Handicap steeplechase, of 100 sovs, witha sweepstake of 5 sovs each.at sov, n.
Star 1 Mar. 4/1: [headline] Diplomacy and the Competition Wallah.at wallah, n.
Star (Guernsey) 9 Apr. 2/7: Members, as a rule, are partial to ‘tongue pie.’ They like to tread upon each other’s corns.at tongue pie, n.
Star (Guernsey) 11 June 2/6: The water bewitched, misnamed soup, of a so-called plain cook.at water bewitched (n.) under water, n.1
Star (Canterbury) 15 Sept. 2/7: It does not become a cattle duffer to talk in that manner.at cattle-duffer, n.
Star (Canterbury) 15 Sept. 2/7: If there was any foundation for the cattle-duffing story [...] his proper place was in the dock.at cattle-duffing, n.
Star (Guernsey) 19 July 4/6: Clapperclaw ’em, and rend ’em, Skedaddlin’ we’ll send ’em.at clapperclaw, v.
Star (Guernsey) 19 July 4/6: Their cats are before us, / Molrowing in chorus.at molrowing, n.
Star (Canterbury) 27 Oct. 3/6: I hope the person who styles himself ‘Shagroon’ will [...] not endeavour to stigmatise unfortunates by hap-hazard claptrap.at shagroon, n.
Star (Guernsey) 23 Feb. 4/2: These small criminals, technically known as fogle or billy hunters, and billy priggers.at billy-hunting (n.) under billy, n.4
‘Some Varieties of Thieves’ in Star (London) 23 Feb. 4/2: An accomplished magsman [...] would never hope to succeed as a bit-faker, or maker of bad money.at bit faker (n.) under bit, n.1
Star (Guernsey) 23 Feb. 4/2: A pickpocket wouold soon lose the delicacy of manipulation [...] if he were to take to blue pigeon flying (stripping empty houses of lead) or lumping (‘lifting’ packages in transit).at fly the blue pigeon (v.) under blue pigeon, n.
Star (Guernsey) 23 Feb. 4/2: Clyfaking, diving, or pickpocketing [...] is in our day abandoned to children .at cly-faker (n.) under cly, n.
‘Some Varieties of Thieves’ in Star (London) 23 Feb. 4/2: An accomplished magsman [...] would never hope to succeed as [...] an efter, or theatre-thief.at efter, n.
Star (Guernsey) 23 Feb. 4/2: The cross-fanner is a variety of the frisker, and the most skilful.at cross-fanner (n.) under fan, v.1
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