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[NZ] Wanganui Herald 18 Feb. 2/9: Poor McAuliffe got such a ‘doing’ from Carney that he has not recovered.
at doing, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 18 Feb. 2/9: Professor West, of New Zealand, was ‘laid aside’ in Sydney [...] in a round a a half.
at lay aside (v.) under lay, v.1
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 18 Feb. 2/9: His unfortunate ‘lug’ was visited so frequently by the English lad’s mauler tht his ‘listner’ [sic] swelled.
at listener, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 18 Feb. 2/9: His unfortunate ‘lug’ was visited so frequently by the English lad’s mauler tht his ‘listner’ [sic] swelled.
at mauler, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 18 Feb. 2/9: [of a boxer] Professor West, of New Zealand, was ‘laid aside’ in Sydney [...] in a round and a half.
at professor, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 18 Feb. 2/9: If Dunn means business, he wishes he would put up or shut up.
at put up or shut up under put up, v.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald (NZ) 31 Aug. 2/9: Frank Palmer has done a lot of leather flapping in New South Wales, where he met with a good deal of success.
at flapping, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald (NZ) 17 Aug. 2: His chance of obtaining an advance is not a rosy one, he having to do a ‘Johnny Woodser’ after the match.
at Jimmy Woodser, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 12 Nov. 2: [headline] Bushed. Two men, Perkins and Francis, were lost in the bush at Herberton, and perished of thirst.
at bushed, adj.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald (N.Z.) 8 Dec. 6/2: The ‘Observer’ makes the most of his opportunity, by implying that the great colonial adjective was the blanky.
at colonial adjective (n.) under colonial, adj.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald (NZ) 4 Dec. 4: On the other hand, it is impossible to find a more suitable Minister among the North Island representatives. Therefore, to use a colloquialism, I have ‘tickets’ on the member for Masterton.
at have tickets on (v.) under ticket, n.1
[NZ] Wanganui Herald (NZ) 1 Dec. 2: This might take with strangers, but not with the majority of electors, for we know that a man who changes his opinions many times is too much of the willy wobbler.
at willy wobbler, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald (N.Z.) 19 Oct. 7/1: The Career of the Motor Bus [...] John Bull is represented as holding his nose to prevent the inhalation of the vile smells emitted from [...] the ‘stinkpot’.
at stinkpot, n.
[NZ] Wanganui Herald 31 Oct. n.p.: New terrors are being added to London life [...] the generic term by which Cockneys designate the motor ’buses is ‘stinkpots’.
at stinkpot, n.
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