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Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/3: Let them [...] howl and carry on, for you don’t care a cent.at not care a cent, v.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/3: Let them [...] howl and carry on, for you don’t care a cent. Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/3: Let them [...] howl and carry on, for you don’t care a cent.at carry on, v.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/1: And the doose of it is, she seems really as if she was making mine up to.at deuce, the, phr.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/1: This state of affairs is most doosid unsatisfactory.at deuced, adv.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/2: Getting the dickens and all of a cold in my head.at dickens, the, phr.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/3: I’d actually swap that imperishable leg off to you for two pounds of water-crackers and a tin cup full of Jamaica rum. Is it a go?at go, n.1
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/2: And by the whatshisname Jingo, before you can say Jack Robinson, she plumps down all her back-hair on my cambric front.at jingo!, excl.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/1: It is in fact, just now decidedly ‘scaly’, not to say even ‘fishy’.at scaly, adj.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/2: Quite so [...] Stunning jolly, isn’t it?at stunning, adv.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/3: I’d actually swap that imperishable leg off to you for two pounds of water-crackers and a tin cup full of Jamaica rum. Is it a go?at swap, v.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/2: Which of ’em’s got a leg like that? Which of ’em kin unscrew his knee-pan, and look at the gum thingamajigs in his calf.at thingumajig, n.
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/2: If I put the finishing toucher, I shall be evidently telling a tremendous whopper.at whopper, n.
Auckland Star 9 Oct. 2/8: he got hold of drink some how [...] He made himself quite stupid for three or four days.at stupid, adj.
Auckland Star 25 Sept. 2/3: ‘What do you call prospecting, Mr Six-and-eightpence?’ The learned counsel’s flood of eloquence was dammed for a while .at six-and-eightpence, n.
Auckland Star supp. 3 Apr. 2: ‘Of course the hero of the meeting was A.H. Holder, and let me tell you he is a ‘boncer’ .at boncer, n.
Auckland Star 30 Sept. 6: ‘Come and see your present, Bill!’ said Dad, and he took him down to the shed. ‘Boncer double-furrow plough!’ crooned Dad.at boncer, adj.
Auckland Star 20 Feb. 6: [of a spectacular explosion] As the crowd wasn’t paying for the damage, such expressions of, ‘Ah, a beauty!’ ‘My word, she’s a boncer!’ were heard as underwriters wrung their hands.at boncer, n.
Auckland Star 30 Apr. 6: ‘Once I grew a case of plums. Boncers, they was; corkers.’.at boncer, n.
Auckland Star 16 Aug. supp. 2: He pinched me dame, me lady lass, / Me bosker little flapper.at bosker, adj.
Auckland Star 25 May 6: The marbles or ‘allies’ were of different classes. There were ‘moobies’, ‘glassies’, ‘bonces’, ‘chalkies’, and ‘fuds’.at boncer, n.
Auckland Star 10 Aug. 6: ‘Fair cracked ’is ’ead a boncer.’.at boncer, n.
Auckland Star 13 Oct. 10: Asking him on the road home how he enjoyed it, he said it was a boncer show, the best thing he’d ever been at.at boncer, adj.
Auckland Star 28 Mar. 8: Charlie again made a tom-tom of his tum-tum. I winced, look shamefacedly at my beer goitre.at beer goitre (n.) under beer, n.
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