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Townsville Dly Bulletin (Qld) 2 Oct. 3/3: As she walked down the town, / Said old Mick: ‘Strike me brown, / She’s a high stepper, sure, from Ostend’.at high-stepper, n.1
Townsville Dly Bulletin (Qld) 2 Oct. 3/3: As she walked down the town, / Said old Mick: ‘Strike me brown, / She’s a high stepper, sure, from Ostend’. Townsville Dly Bulletin (Qld) 2 Oct. 3/3: As she walked down the town, / Said old Mick: ‘Strike me brown, / She’s a high stepper, sure, from Ostend.’ .at strike me brown! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 6 Sept. 11/1: The late chief Bidgee whaler, ‘Scotty the Wrinkler’.at Murrumbidgee whaler (n.) under Murrumbidgee, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 8 July 7/4: He wore an accent and a circle of glass in one eye technically known as a Piccadilly window.at Piccadilly window (n.) under Piccadilly, adj.1
Townsville Daily Bull. 15 Jan. 5/2: We used to call this the ‘Belyando spew’.at belyando spew, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 10 Jan. n.p.: The rest of the spread was bread [...] and golden syrup, ‘long lick’.at long lick (n.) under long, adj.
Townsville Dly Bull. (Qld) 17 Mar. 6/5: [advert] LADIES’ SHAPES – This is a real ‘boncer’ line.at boncer, adj.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 22 Nov. 4s/1: I am a blarmed fool to have you working here.at blame, adj.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: A ‘blister’ means a summons.at blister, n.1
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: Cards are alluded to as ‘boards’, and the rogues who practice the three-card trick are the ‘boardsmen’.at boards, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 22 Nov. 4s/3: We heard the gun blazing away [...] and we reckoned chummy was doing well with the birds.at chummy, n.3
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 22 Nov. 4s/3: A sickly smile drifted across the gussie’s face.at gussie, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: A life sentence is sometimes alluded to as ‘Kathleen Mavourneen’.at kathleen mavourneen, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: Among the criminal classes a cheque is chiefly spoken of as a ‘kite’.at kite, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 22 Nov. 4s/3: The jockey [...] camped on the billabong with the knghts of the shear blade.at knight of the..., n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: To be ‘knocked out’ means to be arrested.at knock out, v.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: ‘The lumber’ is the place where stolen jewellery and other valuables are disposed of.at lumber, n.1
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: ‘The rattler’ is [...] the underground railway.at rattler, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: A gold chain is termed a ‘red lot’ whilst a silver one goes by the name of a ‘white lot’.at white lot (n.) under white, adj.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Aus.) 14 June 13: A pickpocket is termed a ‘whizzer’.at whizzer, n.2
Townsville Daily Bulletin 20 June 38/5: Everything I possessed jumped across the bar, and with a thin cigarette swag I waltzed out.at cigarette swag (n.) under cigarette, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 12 Dec. 6s/5: The silly cow been laugh like bloomin’ jackass.at cow, n.1
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 12 Dec. 6s/2: Scattered about the floor were four empty whisky bottles. Bob picked up the ‘dead-heads’.at deadhead, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 20 June 38/5: The stranger would be the owner of bloodshot eyes and a touch of the jimjams.at jim-jams, n.
Townsville Daily Bull. (Qld) 27 June 12/6: This charioteeer of deceased underground mutton merely murmered [...] ‘run away and take your box of stinks with yer’.at underground mutton, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 12 Dec. 6s/3: Give me your nose-bags so that I can fill them with good tucker.at nosebag, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 20 June 38/5: I secured a job with a pumpkin squatter.at pumpkin-roller (n.) under pumpkin, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 12 Dec. 6s/5: The sky pilot swore that he could not perform the service for such a small amount.at skypilot (n.) under sky, n.1
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 12 Dec. 6s/4: One of you swaggie blokes came here looking for work.at swaggie, n.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 20 June 38/6: A swagman came up for a ‘hand-out’.at swagman, n.2
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