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[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus (WA) 14 May 10/3: Within a month many of the stocks now slightingly referred to as ‘shy-poo’ scrip will be booming .
at shypoo, adj.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus (WA) 26 Mar. 9/5: [heading] Tinned Dog. This vulgar and comprehensive designation covers in West Australia nearly every article of food put up in tins.
at tin dog (n.) under tin, adj.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus 22 Jan. n.p.: Accused came up, called them ‘a pair of bludgers’, and said he would arrest them.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus 14 Mar. 26/1: Complaints were made of the acused [...] trying to ‘take down’ men in the hotels with ‘double-headed’ pennies and loaded dice.
at take down, v.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus (WA) 16 May 23/2: Mr Draper: Was there anything improper in your behaviour? Witness: No, we yarned and there was a bit of smoodging (Laughter).
at smoodge, v.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus 14 June 27/2: The police described him as a ‘common bludger’ who had been living with Mignonee Vasseur.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus (WA) 7 Mar. 41/2: The pulsating personage with the highly developed rabbit-o or bottle-o voice.
at rabbit-o, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus 21 Nov. 32/2: ‘Bone’ in old times (and in English schoolboy talk still) means [...] ‘to steal’.
at bone, v.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie West. Argus 21 Nov. 32/2: The suggestion of ‘oily smoothness’ in the word ‘smooger’.
at smoodger, n.
[Aus] W. Argus Kalgoorlie, WA) 27 June 32/1: Usually fellow bookmakers are the sufferers when a bookmaker decides to go for the gloves.
at go (in) for the gloves (v.) under glove, n.
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