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Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 10 Nov. 26/3: In the absence of which Worcester sauce, painkiller and farmers’ friend were brought into requisition, of the sore eyes, ‘Barcoo rot,’ and ‘Belyando spew’.at Barcoo rot (n.) under Barcoo, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 10 Nov. 26/3: In the absence of which Worcester sauce, painkiller and farmers’ friend were brought into requisition, of the sore eyes, ‘Barcoo rot,’ and ‘Belyando spew’. Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 10 Nov. 26/3: In the absence of which Worcester sauce, painkiller and farmers’ friend were brought into requisition, of the sore eyes, ‘Barcoo rot,’ and ‘Belyando spew’.at belyando spew, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 26 Nov. 17/1: ‘The big dunghill is wheeling again.’ ‘Give it to him!’ ‘Pitch into him!’.at dunghill, n.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 26 Nov. 17/2: He then grappled with Brown [...] and got what is called in pugilistic slang, a fibbing for his pains.at fibbing, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 26 Nov. 17/1: ‘I’d clap yoke on 'em in a jiffy but I’m bent two double in this colic’.at jiffy, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 26 Nov. 16/3: ‘The bullocks will be found,’ thought l — regarding my Johnny Raw friend with the amused pitying look of an old hand.at Johnny Raw, adj.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 19 Feb. 17/2: Refugees from Vandemonian prisons, skulkers from sheep stations.at vandemonianism, n.
Aus. Town and Country Jrnl 3 June 21: I heard a Miss, who is educated and accomplished, say in speaking of a young man, that she intended to ’go for him’ .at go for, v.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 8 July 5/2: The highest scorer [...] should have ‘a leg’ in the great silver cup.at have a leg in (v.) under leg, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 9 Sept. 24/2: As it was the race was nearly lost through tiddly-winking with a brute like Vauban, who couldn’t win a race with a racehorse in a twelvemonth over Randwick.at tiddleywink, v.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 2 Jan. 2/1: The black horse [...] The Nigger, a very fast trotter.at nigger, n.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 18 Nov. 22/3: D-n the brute! [...] he does not belong to the run at all. [...] He is one of those infernal scrub-danglers from the Lachlan, come across to get a feed.at scrub-dangler (n.) under scrub, n.2
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 6 Dec. 15/4: Do not wear tight boots, and avoid elastic sides [...] strong, easy ankle jack shoes are preferable.at ankle-jack (n.) under ankle, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 14 Feb. 33/2: It’s rather sailing on the wrong tack to prevent people running their horses for money, and having fair play to boot, when they can in dulge in ‘hazard,’ ‘blind hookey,’ the blackfellow’s game of ‘three up,’ or the gentleman’s game of ‘props’.at blackfellow’s game, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 21 Aug. 368/4: You have invited replies to a correspondent’s question as to the largest number of sheep shorn in one day by one man [...] S. M. M. (Bowral) gives the
numbor 140 or 160 ‘rosellas,’ and 80 wodders or
‘cobblers,’ at Sir T. A. Murray’s station.at cobbler, n.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 15 July 39/3: Now the whole has to be gone over again, which is — well, just a little bit rough on the town clerk.at a bit rough (adj.) under rough, adj.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl 3 June 15/2: No Wagging — The school attendance officer is among us taking notes.at wag, v.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) Ladies’ Page 7 July 28/2: Randwick [...] The reason why — opening of a school of arts, so the once contemptuously-styled Struggletown is likely to become famous for other than turfy associations.at struggle-town (n.) under struggle, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 4 Apr. 25/2: When I state that I was suffering from Barcoo sickness at the time any old bushman will know why I did not examine further.at Barcoo, n.
Aus. Town and Country Jrnl 12 Dec. 34/1: A ‘duffer’ was one who offered inferior goods to the unwary, under the pretence that they were smuggled.at duffer, n.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 13 Oct. 28/6: [A] young woman of ambitious if somewhat ‘toploftical’ diction.at top-loftical, adj.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl 4 Apr. 14: A msall girl who had spent a weary morning battling with pot-hooks and crooked S’s.at pothooks (and hangers), n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl 3 Oct. 19/1: A district in which I am certain of work has more than once caused me to throw hoofs after hide and ‘blue my last tanner’ on a ‘long-sleever’.at blow, v.2
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl 3 Oct. 19/1: A district in which I am certain of work has more than once caused me to throw hoofs after hide and ‘blue my last tanner’ on a ‘long-sleever’.at throw hoofs after hide (v.) under hoof, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 15 Oct. 21/4: A jack-shay, or quart and pint internuzzled.at jack shea, n.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl 3 Oct. 19/1: A district in which I am certain of work has more than once caused me to throw hoofs after hide and ‘blue my last tanner’ on a ‘long-sleever’.at long-sleever (n.) under long, adj.
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (NSW) 15 Oct. 21/4: No true whaling kit is complete without [...] tea and sugar bag [...] dilly bag [...] and last - guess it - it's only for true whalers - a watrproof bag for the frogs (N.B. - Always carry a frogfor two for bait).at whale, v.2
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl )NSW) 12 Aug. 34/3: Our cousins across the ‘big drink’ can give us points when it comes to devising any kind of [...] amusement.at big drink (n.) under drink, n.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) 7 Apr. 33/2: ‘Don’t you know ’er?’ he repeated, pausing in his task of scooping some black cockroachy sugar from the bottom of a bin.at cockroachy (adj.) under cockroach, n.1
Aus. Town & Country Jrnl 10 Feb. 20/3: The wind had been; however, taken out of the sails of the Conference by the action of the Victorian Premier in cutting off the head of his tallest opposition poppy — by the appointment of Mr Deakin.at tall poppy (n.) under tall, adj.
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