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Sun. Times (Perth) 22 Dec. 4/3: If Mr. Borchgrevink is desperately anxious to ‘do a freeze’ at the South Pole he must secure the necessary financing in London.at do a freeze (v.) under freeze, n.
Sun. Times (Perth) 22 Dec. 4/3: If Mr. Borchgrevink is desperately anxious to ‘do a freeze’ at the South Pole he must secure the necessary financing in London. W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 26 Dec. 6/5: Each man had glorious recollections of the last glorious bust on the fields.at bust, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 8/3: She sent round after the race to know how much the horse had drawn for her. The answer was that ‘her “div.” was a shilling’.at div, n.1
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 7/1: He had gone through his money in Melbourne, he said, though I suspect that someone had ‘gone through’ him.at go through, v.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 26 Dec. 3/1: We have all got used to the extraordinary utterances of His Nibs of Deutchsland.at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 7/1: Jim [was] ‘tired of parting up any more for a duffer’.at part up (v.) under part, v.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 4/6: How Jones thought he had a ‘sleeper’ for £40 (also his attempt to make the ‘sleeper'’ safe) is quite another story.at sleeper, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 11/1: The pastures of a distant land seem greenest and most desirable to the snide bookmakers holding a deal of other people's money.at snide, adj.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 5/1: Even 1,000 to 1 is not a fair price [...] especially as the ‘Tommy’ is sure to get away well.at tommy, n.8
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 9 Jan. 7/4: A meeting of the Most Exalted and sublime Order of Hereditary Grand Muc-a-mucs was held at the High Convivial Temple.at high muck-a-muck, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 9 Jan. 3/4: Well, boys, we’ll have a doch and doris and get home.at dock-and-doris, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 9 Jan. 3/1: [...] or whether an electric blue mackintosh harmonises with a thunder-and-lightening bonnet.at thunder and lightning, adj.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Feb. 3/1: Dash and blank the Exchange! [...] Dash it and blank it, and dash and blank you for a dashed and blanked idiot.at blank, v.1
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Jan. 3/1: Great Britain has been left out of the alleged partition of China [...] It seems that old ‘Bully’ is getting as weak on politics as it is on mining.at John Bull, n.1
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Jan. 3/1: ‘Who’ve you collared, Sergeant?’.at collar, v.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Jan. 3/2: The old Flag must be worth something yet, or there wouldn’t be so many dagoes sailing under it.at dago, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Feb. 3/1: Dash and blank the Exchange! [...] Dash it and blank it, and dash and blank you for a dashed and blanked idiot.at dashed, adj.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Feb. 8/3: See what a dinky little thing it ’ud be to lose, in your case. You wouldn’t miss it.at dinky, adj.1
W. Aus. Sun. Times (Perth) 23 Oct. 8/3: When a customer wants any [Limburger cheese] they put on stout leather leggings, dog-stiffeners, and taking down a Winchester rifle, shoot off the required portion which the purchaser removes from the premises at his own risk.at dog-stiffeners (n.) under dogs, n.1
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Jan. 7/1: ‘What’s your poison, gents?’ [...] ‘Forty-rod’.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 20 Feb. 6/2: ‘Hell and Tommy!‘ said he to the W.K.S.C.at hell and tommy! (excl.) under hell, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 23 Jan. 2/1: No longer can the loafer, the shiftless, or the criminal pose as a decent ‘Jack’ down on his luck.at jack, n.5
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Feb. 8/4: ‘It wouldn’t a-bin so bad if it a-bin a blue marine,’ he said ‘but a red marine! [...] A crawlin’ leather-neck!’.at leatherneck, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 13 Feb. 4/3: ‘Don’t you find gin as a drink very lowering?’ ‘Yes [...] I lower a great deal of it every day’.at lower (a glass) (v.) under lower, v.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Jan. 3/6: One of the officer’s chargers had served its apprenticeship in a milkman’s cart, and as its daily driver saw it pass, he called out, ‘Milk, oh!’.at milko, n.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 20 Feb. 7/1: Nowadays we generally travel gently down to Albany and quietly mizzle hence before a ‘fiery faced’ unit can get into working order.at mizzle, v.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Jan. 2/5: The ill-omened trio [...] almost invariably hail from ‘niffy’ Naples.at niffy, adj.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 9 Jan. 1/2: The average Australian ‘nipper’s’ knowledge of racing minutiæ, although highly interesting and instructive, is not altogether calculated to assist him when the starting-orders go up for Life's Handicap.at nipper, n.3
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Feb. 8/6: She herself is dead nuts on them sort of men.at nuts on, adj.
W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Jan. 3/5: Christmas has come and gone, and the boys are all readying up for a ‘ditto repeato’ New Year.at -o, sfx
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