1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 216: But I can’t paint for sour apples.at for sour apples (adv.) under apple, n.1
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 178: You get around like a bear with a sore head, growl at everything, nothing’s right.at bear, n.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 181: I think they’re beauty! [Ibid.] 185: She spilt some sugar over the tablecloth. ‘Beauty! I’m going to get a lot of money!’.at beauty!, excl.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 153: We used to sit in our huts and listen for the gumboot boogie [...] waited till you heard the feet banging on the floor somewhere around. That’s how you found out where the party was.at boogie, n.4
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 239: It’s the good-looking brush that gives a man all the trouble.at brush, n.4
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 220: Sweating, feeling ill, she said, ‘Oh, go bite your backside!’.at bite your bum! (excl.) under bum, n.1
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 193: The old boy with his head tilted forward all the time [...] bun hat in his dook – that’s Sir Walter Peach.at bun, n.3
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 127: All they get there is Pommies off ships [...] and hard-case dames, and jokers who don’t know what to do with themselves.at hard-case, adj.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 99: Keep your hoofs to yourself or you’ll cop one smartly.at cop one (v.) under cop, v.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 210: Don’t let these counter-spanks rush you. They’ll kid you into taking something you don’t want unless you learn to talk back.at counter-hopper, n.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 257: Whenever the Ds want to check up on some Maori brush, around they come to see you.at D, n.2
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 127: All they get there is [...] hard-case dames, and jokers who don’t know what to do with themselves.at dame, n.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 74: The dyke’s in the bathroom, and someone’s sure to stink the place out.at dike, n.1
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 257: There was a donny down at the Foresters tonight [...] Couple of them had this bloke down, one of them was beating him with a bottle.at donnie, n.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 193: The old boy with his head tilted forward all the time [...] bun hat in his dook – that’s Sir Walter Peach.at dook, n.1
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 19: She delighted in giving cheek to the boys and taking refuge in the girls’ dunny.at dunny, n.2
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 116: Here, have a pig’s ear, that’ll straighten you up. Larry, cork the bottle.at pig’s (ear), n.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 168: ‘Here!’ he thrust a ten-shilling note at her [...] ‘Now get!’.at get!, excl.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 258: All right, don’t get hairy, don’t get hairy [...] Don’t go the rough stuff.at hairy, adj.4