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Life in Victoria 268: [footnote] Bell-topper was the derisive name given by diggers to old style hat, supposed to indicate the dandy swell.at bell-topper (n.) under bell, n.1
Life in Victoria 268: [footnote] Bell-topper was the derisive name given by diggers to old style hat, supposed to indicate the dandy swell. Life in Victoria I 60: Hotel-keepers [...] made no secret of their contempt for mere night-lodgers, or new chums who came to pile up money.at new chum, n.
Life in Victoria I 336: By breakfast-time all the local Yankees [...] had paid their devoirs at the bar, swilling ‘phlegm-cutters’ to the glory and greatness of the stars and stripes.at phlegm-cutter, n.
Life in Victoria I 166: Fill us a nobbler – dark; what’s yours, mate?at dark, n.
Life in Victoria I 59: You’ll not come that game over me, your pair of bloody duffers. Come, pay your money, and then go to h—, if you like.at duffer, n.1
Life in Victoria I 191: I heard the swelling uproar and the loud chorus of ‘Joes!*’ (*Joe is a term of opprobrium hurled after the police ever since the diggings commenced, but the derivation is still a mystery. Some commentators trace it to the Christian name of Mr Latrobe; but this is an error; the ex-governor was never personally unpopular, except with the editor of the Argus).at joe, n.1
Life in Victoria I 54: Sweet bad luck to the pair of yes, ye lousy lime-juicers.at lime-juicer, n.
Life in Victoria I 59: The row brought a mob of drunken men and women, all of whom [...] expressed their anxiety to adopt the host’s quarrel, and ‘lamb us’.at lam, v.1
Life in Victoria I 222: They had not, to use a current phrase, ‘raised the colour.’.at raise the colour (v.) under raise, v.
Life in Victoria I 163: A rough fellow [...] addressed me, saying, ‘What’s yours?’ I was first at a loss, but he soon relieved me. ‘Come, brandy or beer, mate, it’s my shout?’.at shout, n.
Life in Victoria I 54: May the devil purshoe yes out o’ the daycent colony, you spalpeens ye.at spalpeen, n.
Life in Victoria I 166: Fill us a nobbler – dark; what’s yours, mate?at what’s yours?, phr.
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