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[Aus] A.J. Boyd Old Colonials 73: But just before you hands ’im [i.e. a horse] over and gets the money, he goes bong on you.
at go bung (v.) under bung, adj.2
[Aus] A.J. Boyd Old Colonials 233: The pleasant traits of character in our colonialised ‘Chinkie,’ as he is vulgarly termed.
at Chinky, n.
[Aus] A.J. Boyd Old Colonials 233: The pleasant traits of character in our colonialised ‘Chinkie,’ as he is vulgarly termed (with the single variation ‘Chow’).
at Chow, n.
[Aus] A.J. Boyd Old Colonials 60: ‘The Nut,’ may be met with in all parts of Australia, but more particularly [...] in far-off inland bush townships [...] What is a Nut? [...] Imagine a long, lank, lantern-jawed, whiskerless, colonial youth [...] generally nineteen years of age, with a smooth face, destitute of all semblance of a crop of ‘grass,’ as he calls it in his vernacular.
at knut, n.
[Aus] A.J. Boyd Old Colonials 268: The institution of ‘nobblerising’ is carried out in far different places.
at nobblerize (v.) under nobbler, n.3
[Aus] A.J. Boyd Old Colonials 7: The proliferation of the grog shanty and the vogue of the ‘Tambaroora muster.’.
at Tambaroora, n.
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