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[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 186: Poor old Sparks, With an arse full of sparks.
at arse, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 202: ‘Yank bait!’ She winked at Gwennie. ‘They reckon the trolls all get down the wharves when the Yanks are due in.’.
at bait, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 188: Sydney here I come . . . the Big Smoke.
at Big Smoke, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 177: You’re just big-notin’ yourself, carving out a slice of your own particular glory.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 245: She’d say what the Jumbuck workers wanted, not some blow-in Commo with a lotta jumped-up, red-ragger ideas.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 95: I dunno what they do on that night shift [...] Must be the biggest bludge on earth.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 11: These bodgies are a bloody menace [...] If I had me way I’d put every motor bike off the road.
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 221: Old Plonko Charlie [...] went behind the bobbin boxes, where he kept his bottle of bombo.
at bombo, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 117: Ah Mum, give it a bone.
at give it a bone! (excl.) under bone, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 40: I’ve got a bugger of a job tomorrer holdin’ up rivets.
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 78: I’ve never met a copper yet was any good [...] I’m buggered if I’ll be a father-in-law to one.
at buggered, adj.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 40: The girls at work reckon I’ll get the bullet pretty soon.
at get the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 153: The day shift foreman found him there and give him the bullet.
at give someone the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 55: Who’s been fillin’ you up with all that bulsh. Dick I s’pose?
at bullsh, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 42: ‘You’ll get your fingers caught in there one of these days. Then you’ll have something to squawk about.’ ‘Ah bum!’.
at bum!, excl.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 247: We’re only the poor old unskilled mugs. The bunnies!
at bunny, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 46: ‘Reckon we’ll get a Southerly Buster tonight?’ ‘Hard to say. We’re gettin’ the sort of weather we uster to get before the war. I reckon it’s these atomic explosions.’.
at buster, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 208: Life’s hard enough for everyone without puttin’ up with a mad kid inter the bargain [...] You feel as if you’re orf to Callan Park yourself.
at Callan Park, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 243: This carroty-headed woman.
at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 193: Why doncha get a coupla cheaters luv, an’ you wouldn’t look so much like a man dressed up.
at cheaters, n.2
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 17: When it come to a pinch Roy was ready to chuck me, But Jack won’t do that.
at chuck, v.2
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 74: He hasn’t got nothin’, just a great, ignorant, overgrown cockie’s son.
at cocky, n.2
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 57: The cozzies and towel [were] rolled under Ken’s arm.
at cossie, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 23: It’s enough to bring on a mis. Everyone knows what a cow of a thing it is, muckin’ up on you.
at cow, n.1
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 58: Hope you know what you’re doin’. Not cradle-snatchin’ are you?
at cradle-snatcher (n.) under cradle, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 252: Take that to the boss you dirty crawler.
at crawler, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 49: Dawnie [...] don’t be crooked on your old Mum.
at crooked on, adj.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 48: ‘By the way darl . . .’ she paused.
at darl, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 63: I’ll just take a dekko inside.
at dekko, n.
[Aus] D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 18: ‘Don’t you sling shit at me,’ she shrieked. ‘Don’t you throw up at me about the kids on the State and one dead.’.
at sling (the) dirt (at) (v.) under dirt, n.
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