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W. Australian (Perth) 14 Mar. 3/1: These unlicensed ‘boozeries’ will dwindle away [...] the licensed houses are open to public supervision.at boozery, n.
W. Australian (Perth) 14 Mar. 3/1: These unlicensed ‘boozeries’ will dwindle away [...] the licensed houses are open to public supervision. West Australian (Perth) 18 Mar. 3/2: I have a decided and natural objection to saddle either squatters or police with bush-whacker’s yarns, evolved out of their own imagination.at bushwhacker, n.1
West Australian (Perth) 7 July 3/4: The charming Mrs. Dillon of the Brockman, whose sweet smiles lured many to breast the bar over which she presided.at breast (up to), v.
West Australian 6 Oct. 2/2: Shaw said to complainant, ‘Go on, you are a fool; can’t you stand a joke?’ Complainant said, ‘Fair dinkum?’ Shaw said, ‘Yes.’ .at fair dinkum, adj.
West Australian (Perth) 1 Feb. 2/3: When Mr Elliot has learned to read plain English [...] instead of the impertinces of a ‘bullock-puncher’.at bullock-puncher (n.) under bullock, n.
letter in West Australian (Perth, WA) 12 Dec. 6/4: Yours, etc., sandgroper.at sand-groper, n.
West Australian (Perth) 1 May3/4: Mr Wray’s theory shares the same fate as Barney’s bull.at as dead as Barney’s bull(s) under barney’s bull, n.
West Australian (Perth) 10 Mar. 2/2: [I] was forgetting - stages are not stuck up in this colony, I believe, and I apologise for the want of bushwhackers.at bushwhacker, n.1
West. Australian (Perth) 28 Sept. 6/1: Thee beest a busky-eyed chucklehead [...] Thee wants to bring thee and me to Lob’s pound.at lob’s pound, n.
West. Australian (Perth) 28 Sept. 6/1: Thee beest a fine pilgarlic.at pilgarlic, n.
West. Australian (Perth) 13 July 12/5: There was no standing their supporters until they experienced a reverse—a kind of ‘flash left‘ on ther ‘snozzler’ so to speak.at snozzle, n.
West Australian (Perth) 29 May 6/2: This adoption of the rhyming slang was, I think, only put on to try to impress me of his ’cuteness. He was surprised to find I understood every word. ‘You “rumble” the “knife and fork” very well, sonnie’.at knife and fork, n.
West Australian (Perth) 5 Feb. 9/5: Once at Deniliquin, before starting to ‘blew’ his just-earned cheque, Bob Edwards went into a barber’s shop to set his chin and hair back at scratch, by way of beginning a new year.at blew, v.2
West Australian (Perth) 5 Feb. 9/3: He was now Bob Edwards, the unkempt tramp, humping his bluey along the Sunset Track [...] and chumming with the human flotsam and jetsam that is for ever floating about these out skirting fringes of civilisation.at chum, v.
West Australian (Perth) 8 Apr. 7/4: It was all very well to speak of the alluvial miner, who was backed up by the publican and the ‘shypoo shop’ keepers and little storekeepers, who [...] considered only the present.at shypoo joint (n.) under shypoo, n.
West Australian (Perth) 5 Feb. 9/3: He was now Bob Edwards, the unkempt tramp, humping his bluey along the Sunset Track, shunning respectable folk and all that was theirs.at sunset track, n.
West Australian (Perth) 5 Feb. 9/5: Each year was made up in this way, and in course of time Bob came to be a well-known character on the roads, for his superior education and sound bush instincts put him somewhat above the ordinary run of human wallaby trackers.at wallaby track (n.) under wallaby, n.
W. Australian (Perth) 2 Mar. 7/4: Accused denied that he was a ‘professional beer-sparrer’.at beer-sparrer (n.) under beer, n.
West Australian (Perth) 26 Feb. 7/5: I will just give you a verse of a song one of our men sang: Bully beef for breakfast, bully beef for tea, / Biscuits hard as bath bricks, a hundred years at sea. / Adam’s knife and fork, boys, Nature’s cutlery, / But there’s gun-fire tea for Kruger in the morning.'.at Adam’s knife and fork (n.) under Adam, n.
West Australian (Perth) 13 Apr. 12/1: As a light-weight pilot Derry Dalton stood high in public estimation.at pilot, n.
West Australian (Perth) 30 Dec. 6/7: Gunga Brahm, the Indian wrestler, and Jack Perryman contested a match.at Gunga, n.
West Australian (Perth) 10 Oct. 10/2: [advert] Cricket. – Now on view, a Bonzer assortment of Bats (by leading manufacturers) Balls (Composition and Leather), Stumps, Pads, Gloves, and every accessory to the game.at bonzer, adj.
West. Australian 12 Apr. 9/2: They all reckon they can bring [...] in enough sentiment to make it gee.at gee, v.1
West Australian (Perth) 20 July 8/8: The benefit to the country was obvious, but to our party, who had to sleep in the ‘star hotel’ without a tent, that which benefited the country was a decided discomfort.at star hotel (n.) under star, n.1
West Australian (Perth) 25 Aug. 2/6: I knew there were a few hard nuts about, who were watching an opportunity to rob him while drunk.at hard nut, n.
West Australian (Perth) 25 Aug. 2/6: Food, the best of all kinds, he pressed upon me. Said I’d be no good for work till I was well stoked.at stoked, adj.
West Australian (Perth) 25 Aug. 2/6: He would call me all the lurid names he could think of, but i paid no attention, It was only beer talk.at it’s the beer talking under talk, v.
W. Australian (Perth) 5 Aug. 9/5: Williamson first took over ‘The Old Alec’ and converted it into Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne.at Alec, the, n.
W. Australian (Perth) 10 July 8/8: The pipe has many forms. The hookah and nargileh, the long ‘churchwarden’.at churchwarden, n.
West. Australian (Perth) 25 Oct. 7/7: The police found that the back door had been opened with a piece of wire, known as a ‘twister,’ which is capable of unfastening any ordinary lock.at twister, n.
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