![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia")
(ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Those who followed the Bacchic way were variously known as plonk fiends [...] bombo bashers. [Ibid.] 16: The legendary drink of the twenties and thirties was the Fourpenny Dark. This was a stoup of nourishing bombo which, in the great days, was served in a mug with a handle on it. Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 16: The legendary drink of the twenties and thirties was the Fourpenny Dark. Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: There was a time [...] when to drink wine as an ordinary tipple in Melbourne Town was to be branded as an alcoholic derelict, a poof, a frog or woglike alien. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: The juice of the grape was known, among other things, as ‘hen.’ [...] a whimsical tribute to the liquor’s reputed power to make chaps who drank it behave like chooks, that is, lay on the spot. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Affectionate nicknames for the stuff itself [i.e. wine] were: scarlet runner, ink, paint. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Affectionate nicknames for the stuff itself were: scarlet runner, [...] nelly, pinky, plonk and plink. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Affectionate nicknames for the stuff itself were: scarlet runner, ink, paint. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Affectionate nicknames for the stuff itself were: scarlet runner, [...] pinky, plonk and plink. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Affectionate nicknames for the stuff itself were: scarlet runner, [...] pinky, plonk and plink. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Those who followed the Bacchic way were variously known as plonk fiends or artists, plonkos, winos, bombo bashers, winedots and wyandottes. [Ibid.] 16: The plonk shops do seem to have been in direct line of descent from the grog shanties and shebeens. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Those who followed the Bacchic way were variously known as plonk fiends or artists, plonkos, winos, bombo bashers, winedots and wyandottes. Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: There was a time [...] when to drink wine as an ordinary tipple in Melbourne Town was to be branded as an alcoholic derelict, a poof, a frog or woglike alien. Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 44: What he didn’t know [...] was that actually she had shot through to London with another feller [...] He was going to discover at the end of the three months that he’d had the richard. (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Those who followed the Bacchic way were variously known as plonk fiends or artists, plonkos, winos, bombo bashers, winedots and wyandottes. Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: There was a time [...] when to drink wine as an ordinary tipple in Melbourne Town was to be branded as an alcoholic derelict, a poof, a frog or woglike alien.