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Taranaki Herald (NZ) 18 June 4/3: He too [...] could tell us something about the whistle of a bullet and the shriek of round shot sent upon a serious miss'on. I am, yours, &c, AN OLD SHAGROON.at shagroon, n.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 18 June 4/3: He too [...] could tell us something about the whistle of a bullet and the shriek of round shot sent upon a serious miss'on. I am, yours, &c, AN OLD SHAGROON. Taranaki Herald (NZ) 16 Sept. 2/4: People in court thought the woman was a relative of the magistrate, or perhaps thet she was ‘a shingle short,’ but no one interfered.at shingle short, a, adj.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 3 Nov. 4/1: ‘I say, Sambo, less us jine de baseball club.’ ‘What for, nigger?’.at nigger, n.1
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 3 Nov. 4/1: ‘I say, Sambo, less us jine de baseball club.’ ‘What for, nigger?’.at sambo, n.1
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 11 Mar. n.p.: ‘The darkey’s hour is just before the dawn,’ remarked Sambo.at sambo, n.1
Taranaki Herald (N.Z.) 3 Nov. 2/8: [heading] Colonial Adjective [...] Attention has been drawn by a correspondent [...] to the habit of swearing among colonial youth [etc.].at colonial adjective (n.) under colonial, adj.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 13 Sept. 4/2: Get a wiggle on, my lad / Don’t walk at a funeral pace / [...] / Get a hustle on your walk.at get a wiggle on (v.) under wiggle, n.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 11 June 2/8: Are sure as eggs is eggs [...] it will come to it.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 12 Oct. 2/9: By blankety blank, if i had a blankety box of thingemy matches, I’d set - world - well on fire.at blankety-blank, phr.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 12 Oct. 2/9: Blank this for a picnic! said the swaggie.at blank, v.1
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 12 Oct. 2/9: By blankety blank, if I had a blankety box of thingemy matches, I’d set - world - well on fire.at blankety, adj.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 12 Oct. 2/9: The swaggie had tobacco and a pipe [...] and endeavoured to light his nose warmer.at nose warmer (n.) under nose, n.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 12 Oct. 2/9: By blanety blank, if i had a blankety box of thingemy matches, I’d set - world - well on fire.at thingummy, n.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 26 July 2/7: Local teams who adopted the probably expressive but inelegant titles of ‘tripe hounds’ (whatever that might mean) and ‘Bonsors’.at tripe-hound (n.) under tripe, n.1
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 10 Dec. 2/4: ‘Well, I don’t know you from a bar of soap and you don’t get in’.at not know (B) from a bar of soap (v.) under not know..., v.
Taranaki Herald 26 Nov. 3/1: He came towards the witness on the Veale Road and complained of the ‘— snotty way’ he had been treated.at snotty, adj.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 23 Dec. 7/4: His astygmatic ‘gig-lamps’ on his purple proboscis.at gig-lamps, n.
Taranaki Herald 9 July 1: [advert] Ox and Sheep Kidneys in galore; real boncers.at boncer, n.
Taranaki Herald 16 Jan. 2: On Saturday, the second eleven, who are better known as ‘The Otako Boncers,’ met the Warea team.at boncer, n.
Taranaki Herald (NZ) 8 Oct. 2/3: The recent ‘lambing down’ case in Gisborne was heard today, when Joseph Burke, ex-licensee [...] was found guilty of supplying liquor to George Pearson while in a state of intoxicaton.at lamb down, v.
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