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[Aus] in B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage.
at bee-stings (n.) under bee, n.1
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage 278: bitumen blonde: Aboriginal woman.
at bitumen blonde, n.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage.
at bob powell, n.
[Aus] (ref. to 1960s) B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 171: He publically expressed the view that all foreigners [...] were wogs, dogs, bogs or logs.
at bog, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1900s–30s) B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage 126: To take up farming was to go cockying [...] fencing wire was known as cocky’s friend.
at cocky’s friend (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage.
at sure cop (n.) under cop, n.2
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage.
at holy dooley! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 170: Another [...] common expression directed at Englishmen – a Kipper.
at kipper, n.1
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage 230: The old terms of lady’s waist (Sydney) and pixie (Melbourne) for small glasses appear to have disappeared from the scene .
at lady’s waist (n.) under lady, n.
[Aus] (ref. to 1960s) B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 171: He publically expressed the view that all foreigners [...] were wogs, dogs, bogs or logs.
at log, n.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage 191: Onion is a modem term, not recorded by Sidney Baker, and refers to the practice of bikie gangs in common sexual sharing of one of the girl-followers or of an outsider unwillingly abducted for the occasion.
at onion, n.2
[Aus] (ref. to 1970s) B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 264: Poofter Bashing became an accepted after-dark Australian (male) pastime.
at poofter-bashing (n.) under poofter, n.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage 197: A woman who refuses to have sex after being wined and dined is called a quandong; the origin of the term is unknown.
at quandong, n.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 171: In the 1930s the insult reffo was frequently directed at him.
at reffo, n.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 37: In an article in the Bulletin in 1981, Jan Serisier strung together a number of these linguistic abbreviations [...] ‘Bluie the cabbie, took a sickie. His wife was up in Rockie on hollies, visiting rellies’.
at rellie, n.
[Aus] B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage 101: The outback has an identical geographical twin in the never never, and to reinforce the myth of the actual existence of such places the old timers invented equally mythical place names such as Bullabakanha (there are several alternate spellings), Snake Gully and Woop Woop.
at snake gully (n.) under snake, n.1
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