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[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 132: A giant of a man [...] with enormous feet of which he was quaintly proud. ‘Me beetle-crushers will carry me further than the hoofs of a horse!’ was his boast.
at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 52: A blackbirder smoked lazily while on watch.
at blackbirder, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 51: These the wild days of the pearl-shell rushes, before the better-hearted men in the fleets put a stop to blackbirding.
at blackbirding, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 172: Easy feller fall ’im over log! Blurry big donkey, that one!
at blurry, adv.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 180: All they had to do [...] was to keep their ‘bo-peeps’ well and truly on Maitland Buckle.
at bo-peep, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 10: I’m Blue Bob th’ b— from Borroloola! Yard me you b—s if you can!
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 141: Recently, a man in the horrors had taken to the bush, lived ‘bush’ sixteen days; he cannot recollect what he survived on.
at bush, adj.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 150: Take a pull on yourself, Womba, or you’ll be going bush in the horrors.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 72: And the talk inevitably turned to gold. ‘Ah!’ sighed Womba. ‘I too chased the pennyweight in the days when I had my Ena.’.
at chase the (penny)weight (v.) under chase, v.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 100: Cheese that singing now.
at cheese, v.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 76: He rode all night—the fool! A new-chum stockman, he’d lost the mob.
at new chum, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 247: They’re as cunning as a wagon-load of monkeys, Jack.
at cunning as a (whole) wagon-load of monkeys (adj.) under cunning, adj.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 27: A man goes nuts in the back country [...] battling against the everlasting bush, cattle-spearers, ‘dingbats’, and worst of all himself.
at dingbats, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 13: Bunch ’em up, you loafing sons of poddy-dodgers!
at poddy dodger, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 41: He called to the donks—the donks he’d grown to like so much, the donks who knew him so well.
at donk, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 22: With the Dry come plentiful fruits.
at dry, the, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 250: I reckon Chuckling Annie is about the ugliest gin in the Kimberleys.
at gin, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 166: ‘No one would take your teeth. Sure you haven’t swallowed them?’ ‘Swallered ’em! Do you think a man could swallow two sets of ivories?’.
at ivory, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 11: There came the rattle of plates and eating tools; a noisy, cheery breakfast, the knights of the knives and forks slyly gallant to the Vision and her buxom offsider.
at knight of the..., n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 146: The only music to Womba was the clapping of the kylies. [Ibid.] 205: The didgeree-doos boomed, wommeras and kylies clicked rhythmically.
at kylie, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 68: How about his hoofs?’ asked the Swamp Hog dubiously. [...] ‘You know he’s got pads like a camel. I’ll ram ’em into a pair of girl’s shoes somehow.’.
at pad, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 176: ‘Pad out on your own hooves and bring in those mules and horses!’ roared Bert.
at pad, v.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 100: Don’t you disgrace me, you bunch of sweet-peas!
at sweet pea, n.3
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 82: You must be a pretty old piker too.
at piker, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 75: From out in the road came a rip-snorting yell.
at rip-snorting, adj.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 10: He’d put up in his last Wet up river at the Crossing and they’d ‘yarded’ him there all right—on the end of a chain padlocked to a log.
at go up the river (v.) under river, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 269: We’d got a scatter on and then didn’t hear of the wedding until too late to send a present.
at get a scatter on (v.) under scatter, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 10: Blue Bob was a ‘snorter,’ whistled like a horse every time he talked.
at snorter, n.2
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 27: It’s queer the thoughts that drift through his thinking-box.
at thinking box (n.) under think, v.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 167: Old Tom was one of those who get ‘the weeps’ when his favourite song is sung.
at weeps, n.
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