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[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 11 Nov. 6/3: ‘Boss cockies’, or prosperous farmers, with unencumbered freeholds, grab the holdings of the small fry, and deprive them of a living [AND].
at boss cocky (n.) under boss, n.2
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 9 Oct. 8/3: And this is supposed to be a cutting chuck-off at Protection.
at chuck off, n.
[Aus] Tocsin 15 Sept. 3: Height, about 5 ft. 6 1\2 in.; style ‘lairy’. Shop made suit, tight fit and cheap. Flower in slouched hat, well over eyes. ‘Silk’ rag around neck [AND].
at lairy, adj.
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 7 Apr. 5/3: They must have thought me a leading Australian statesman, or one of Australia’s flunkey mayors on the scoot for a Knighthood!!!
at on the scoot (adj.) under scoot, v.
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 5 Oct. 6/3: The Chronic Beer Eater. Although the Habitual Drunkards' Board refused to examine such an expert on the subject, both in theory and in practice, as ‘Scotty the Wrinkler,’ their report bears evidence of very much care ful thought.
at beer-eater (n.) under beer, n.
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 13 Sept. 6/1: The march of years and of intellect has flattened the damper into a ‘cart-wheel’, in which form even the unskilled traveller fresh from the city can very easily produce a tolerably good baking [AND].
at cartwheel, n.1
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 7/4: Legal Wet-Henism. That the law is an ass everybody has hitherto been prepared to admit, but Parliamentary law appears to be something worse. It is as silly as a wet hen.
at ...a (wet) hen under silly as…, adj.
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 19 July 5/1: When thing’s is goin’ onkus, an’ when things is goin’ shine, / When you’re walkin’ on your uppers - or you’ve got a bonza mine.
at onkus, adj.
[Aus] Tocsin (Melbourne) 16 Aug. 2/1: Rumpty Reid came to Queen land to teach people the necessity of polling their votes [...] yet all his advocacy in New South Wales, his own State, has resulted in its being one of the worst voting States in the Commonwealth.
at rumpty, adj.
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