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[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 256: Men generally go armed in the north if travelling through ‘bad-nigger’ country.
at bad nigger (n.) under bad, adj.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 212: I reckoned th’ sun was getting up on th’ wrong side so I crawled out to bo-peep.
at bo-peep, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 275: ‘So help me bob!’ gazed a greyhead who had been loudest in prophecy of disaster, ‘I’m jiggered!’.
at s’elp me bob!, excl.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 212: On a strong side table were big plates of meat and vegetables. ‘Bog in!’ called the cook; and all hands ‘bogged in’.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 85: He always reads the paper before calling it ‘a day’.
at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 258: The cutlery, tinware and enamel [...] the ‘fodder’, roast beef and corned, with ‘spuds’ and onions.
at fodder, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 84: He caught the glint of a policeman’s cap: the steady eyes of the Law searched his face as he passed.
at law, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 293: On occasion [he] used it as a club when ‘roughies’ among the gang proved ‘obstruculous’.
at obstroculous, adj.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 280: Joe had relapsed to camels and his opinion of those beasts was as ‘rorty’ as a local dust-storm.
at rorty, adj.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 293: On occasion [he] used it as a club when ‘roughies’ among the gang proved ‘obstruculous.’.
at roughie, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 236: The old box of tricks would get through somehow and chug into Canarvon triumphantly ahead of the next ‘wet.’.
at wet, the, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Flynn of the Inland 17: ‘What are you then?’ ‘A parson on the wallaby.’ ‘Good heavens!’.
at on the wallaby under wallaby, n.
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