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The Exiles of Asbestos Cottage choose

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[NZ] (ref. to 1950s) J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 68: Just a wee deoch-an-doris / Before we gang a-wa’.
at dock-and-doris, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 55: The original black tar-baby maltoid roof, leaking badly, was replaced.
at tar baby, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 98: Sometimes he’d take a dozen tins of bully.
at bully, n.2
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 14: Wool’s always going down anyway, the cockies say.
at cocky, n.2
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 14: Plenty of garrulous half-shot but willing hands had all the wool stacked safely in the store by 1 am, when they turned to even more willingly and cut the keg.
at cut, v.6
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 38: A watch which had belonged to his father in France. The hands went anti-clockwise. [...] ‘A dag of a watch.’.
at dag, n.2
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 80: Defiant woolly sheep also known as ‘double deckers’, which had been wily enough to dodge last season’s muster.
at double-decker (n.) under double, adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 14: Plenty of garrulous half-shot but willing hands had all the wool stacked safely in the store.
at half-shot, adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 60: The old name of Pig Islanders for New Zealanders at times seems singularly apt.
at Pig Islander (n.) under Pig Island, n.
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 39: Ker-rist, mate, we thought we were bad enough! What you need is a crop of bloody Ned Kellys.
at Ned Kelly, n.1
[NZ] (ref. to WWII) J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 38: Bertie sang [...] to the tune of the Egyptian national anthem ‘King Farouk, King Farouk / Put Farieda up the chute.’.
at up the pole, adj.2
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 14: Plenty of garrulous half-shot but willing hands had all the wool stacked safely in the store.
at half shot (adj.) under shot, adj.
[NZ] J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 38: She would see little as a tucked-up patient in an ambulance.
at tucked up, adj.2
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