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[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 7 Dec. 3/3: [T]here was a paper called ‘Paddy Kelly’s Budget,’ [...] a scurrillous production which contained nothing but personalities [...] It frequently came out with a fly-blister of a woodcut, representative of nothing in particular, though the local artist generally managed to label it [...] ‘The Execution of the latest murderer’.
at fly-blister (n.) under fly, n.3
[Aus] Windsor and Richmond Gaz. 8 Nov. 4/4: The jumbled mixture [...] plainly shows the writer to be more familiar with shandygaff than English composition.
at shandygaff, n.
[Aus] Windsor and Richmond Gaz. 8 Nov. 4/4: The jumbled mixture [...] plainly shows the writer to be more familiar with shandygaff than English composition [...] the introduction to the unaccustomed [...] completely upset the shandy-gaffed brain.
at shandygaff, v.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 26 Aug. 6/2: There was no shouting then. Everyone did his Jimmy Woods-er.
at Jimmy Woodser, n.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gazette (NSW) 2 Oct. 1/3: Had he ever been ‘on his uppers’ [...] had to ‘hump Matilda’ or ‘shoulder bluey’ [...] over dry and dusty roads.
at carry Matilda (v.) under matilda, n.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 24 Sept. 3/1: One of the most miserable days experienced in Windsor for a long time was last Sunday. The wind blew continuously all day, and clouds of dust enveloped everything. It was a veritable Bourke shower.
at Bourke shower (n.) under Bourke, n.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 10 Dec. 7/4: A simple freckled farmer [...] who is the champ cusser of the Big Scrub.
at champ, adj.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 10 Dec. 7/4: ‘Put the —?!!! brakes on, you —,(),**, fool!’ Shunter: ‘Rightoh!’.
at righto!, excl.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 2 June 1/2: Those unhappy, over-worked, under-paid, and very civil servants were [...] permitted to eat, drink and be merry, and go ‘on the scoot’ generally.
at on the scoot (adj.) under scoot, v.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 16 Sept. 1/2: When Russia had been banged, lashed, minced, dog-walloped, donkey-licked and smashed up generally, she submitted, on terms she was glad to jump at.
at dog-wallop (v.) under dog, n.2
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 18 July 3/2: [in fig. use] Unwary tradesmen at times have their goods defiled by passing curs. You, no doubt, through the negligence of your office dog-walloper, have allowed your columns to be defiled in a similar way.
at dog-walloper (n.) under dog, n.2
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 8 Aug. 8/1: Fred Millie, now regarded as the world’s greatest ventriloquist, with a constant engagement at London theatres, did a freeze in Windsor, and left in a hurry.
at do a freeze (v.) under freeze, n.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 16 Nov. 3/1: I might mention I have bumped across several of the old Windsor boys during our route marches.
at bump across (v.) under bump, v.1
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 20 May 11/4: There’s plenty of good golden googies to be picked up at the Ferry.
at golden googie (n.) under golden, adj.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 9 Nov. 3/4: The police are on strike in Marvellous Smellbourne, and hoodlums are rioting and looting in a shameless way.
at Smellbourne, n.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 25 Dec. 16/3: [W]herever he went, he found everybody alert, and sitting up like ‘Jacky,’ looking for the fray.
at sit up like jacky (v.) under jacky jacky, n.
[Aus] Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 6 Jan. 11/4: The writer [...] commenced his career as a "dog- walloper"' to a Brickfield Hill firm of drapers, famous for its £5 bales of household drapery.
at dog-walloper (n.) under dog, n.2
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