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Western Mail (Perth, WA) 19 Dec. 39/5: [heading] In Company with a Cape Farmer. Prowling kaffirs or other ‘black trash’ steal his sheep and cattle.at black trash (n.) under black, adj.
Western Mail (Perth, WA) 19 Dec. 39/5: [heading] In Company with a Cape Farmer. Prowling kaffirs or other ‘black trash’ steal his sheep and cattle. Western Mail (Perth) 1 Dec. 52/2: From the point of view of the feeder they might justly be set down [...] as eminently hard doers, and at their best [...] they can but look ungainly, slab sided, thriftless animais.at hard doer (n.) under hard, adj.
Western Mail (Perth) 11 Nov. 11/3: I may rip out sometimes when I’m angry, but I don’t interlard my ordinary conversation with obscenity.at rip out (v.) under rip, v.
Western Mail (Perth) 21 July 67/4: ‘I knew it would take something better than a Frenchman to stop you, once you got properly on your tail’.at get on one’s tail (v.) under tail, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 27 Dec. 32/2: Here’s to the boys in the back blocks [...] to the man whose Christmas dinner is a tin of dog with syrup for an entree.at tin dog (n.) under tin, adj.
Western Mail (Perth) 31 Oct. 22/4: The cuddy, dear boy, is the most intelligent of animals because it has the greatest brayin’ power!!at cuddy, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 14 Mar. 43/5: The lengthsmen whose constant duty it was to verify this state of affairs [i.e. bent rails] thus earned the soubriquet of ‘snake charmers’.at snake charmer (n.) under snake, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 23 Oct. 18/2: They would be able to elect those who were to say whether there should be more or less poison shops in their midst.at poison shop (n.) under poison, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 24 Dec. 6/4: ‘Spoggy,’ Williams, writes: – I have been informed that the sparrows are following the telegraph line over from South Australia.at spoggy, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 8 Apr. 51/1: A catapult, or shanghai, as the Australian boy calls it.at shanghai, n.2
Western Mail (Perth) 5 June 44/1: He has a gentle way of saying, 'Come here, my little chickenlet you can’t be feeling well,’ and then, don’t he rock it in.at rock in (v.) under rock, v.3
Western Mail (Perth) 9 Feb. 48/1: [orig. Indian text] I learned later that he visited the bar and ordered a ‘burra peg’ (large whisky), which was followed by
a ‘chota peg’ (small whisky), and he topped the combination off with some pinkish concoction which
would clog the pores of a pig’s liver.at chota peg (n.) under chota, adj.
(con. late 19C) Western Mail (Perth) 21 Dec. 17/2: Men of all nations, ages, and characters were attracted by the glamour of gold [...] They ‘humped Maria,’ they trundled wheel-barrows, they travelled by waggons, drays, horses, and camels.at carry Matilda (v.) under matilda, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 30 Dec. 4/3: I got the old woman to get me two yards of strong single-width calico, and out of that calico I cut three pairs of Prince Alberts, and I have been wearing those Prince Alberts for the last four months.at Prince Alberts, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 3 Feb. 5/1: I was once consulting a carter about the use of bog-house-soil, upon a piece of cold, iron clay, on which nothing would grow, when the fellow turning up his nose most delicately, told me, he hoped I would then get people proper for the employ.at boghouse, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 17 Nov. 21/1: [in cartoon captioned ‘The Police Table d’Hote’] Skilly and toke, skilly and toke. Really it’s enough...at toke, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 30 July 3/2: Barcoo spues has always affected me in the following way. I can be having a hearty meal [...] when suddenly I have to rush from the table and be sick.at Barcoo spew (n.) under Barcoo, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 30 July 3/2: There has been much talk in the columns about barcoo sickness [...] Barcoo rot, and barcoo ‘spues’, as it is commonly called in the bush. Barcoo rot is, I think, in the blood.at Barcoo, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 30 July 3/2: There has been much talk in the columns about barcoo sickness [...] Barcoo rot, and barcoo ‘spues’, as it is commonly called in the bush. Barcoo rot is, I think, in the blood.at Barcoo rot (n.) under Barcoo, n.
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] A sovereign had a lot of slang names [...] a portrait, a yellow boy, [...] a foont, a poona [and] a bean.at bean, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] Twenty or thirty years ago a sixpenny bit used still to be known as a kick or a bender.at bender, n.1
(ref. to 1850s) Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London]At the time of the Crimean War bob was only one of a number of terms [for a shilling] such as twelver and breaky-leg, gen and teviss, stag, deaner, hog and levy.at breakyleg, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] A 5s. piece in my young days was still called a cartwheel, but no longer a tosheroon or a bull.at bull, n.3
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] A sovereign had a lot of slang names [...] a portrait, a yellow boy, [...] a canary, a couter, a foont, a poona [and] a bean.at canary, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] A 5s. piece in my young days was still called a cartwheel, but no longer a tosheroon or a bull.at cartwheel, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] A sovereign had a lot of slang names [...] a portrait, a yellow boy, [...] a canary, a james, a couter, a foont, a poona [and] a bean.at couter, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] Twenty or thirty years ago a sixpenny bit used still to be known as a kick or a bender. Two or three decades before that it was a [...] cripple.at cripple, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] For the word money chink, tin, and dibbs survive.at dibbs, n.
(ref. to 1850s) Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London]At the time of the Crimean War bob was only one of a number of terms [for a shilling] such as twelver and breaky-leg, gen and teviss, stag, deaner, hog and levy.at gen, n.1
Western Mail (Perth) 28 May 21/1: [from Daily Mail, London] A sovereign had a lot of slang names [...] a portrait, a yellow boy, [...] a canary, a james, a couter, a foont, a poona [and] a bean.at james, n.
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