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The Boy in the Bush choose

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[UK] ‘Edward Howe’ Boy in the Bush 215: The Jerry’s Town youngsters were pelting the Chinaman, [...] meanwhile shouting out ‘Chow-chow!’.
at chow-chow, n.1
[UK] ‘Edward Howe’ Boy in the Bush 158: The cove is so jolly green, it’s my belief he’ll never miss ’em.
at cove, n.
[UK] ‘Edward Howe’ Boy in the Bush 219: Policemen lounged about, striving to look unconscious of the ‘Joey!’ which the miners found time to shout after them in scorn.
at joe, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 250: Hello, mate! How’s goin’?
at how are you going?, phr.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 91: Roundin’ up on imaginary things, makin’ out t’hit ’em slap-bang-whizz on the mitts they ain’t got.
at slap-bang, adv.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 294: ‘Stocking be blowed!’ said Tom testily. ‘We’ve heard that barm-stick yarn before.’.
at barm-stick, adj.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in the Bush 255: It was the twentieth dance. Jack had been introduced to a sporting girl in her late twenties [...] Tom called her a ‘barrack hack’.
at barrack hack, n.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 57: Ever wear a bell-topper?
at bell-topper (n.) under bell, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 90: Success is t’grow a big bingy like a bloke from town, ’n a watch-chain acrost it with a gold dial.
at bingy, n.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 68: He didn’t want the young Jackeroo planted on him, to teach any blankey thing to.
at blanky, adj.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 281: I haven’t any cash. Not a stiver, Ma! Blown out!
at blow out, v.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 249: If he’s got a pack, it’s his swag. If he’s only got a blanket and a billy, it’s his bluey and drum.
at bluey, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 208: You’ll be a half-baked, quarter-educated bush-whacker, instead of a well-equipped man.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 49: Whoever sleeps in this cubby. They has ter say their prayers, see?
at cubby, n.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 49: We’re plain people out here-aways, not [...] dickey-toffs, an’ we want no flash sparks round, see?
at dicky, adj.2
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 249: If he’s got a pack, it’s his swag. If he’s only got a blanket and a billy, it’s his bluey and drum.
at drum, n.5
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 68: Easu was a coarse, swivel-eyed, loose-jointed tall fellow.
at swivel-eyed, adj.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 207: Tom twisted his fingers, white at the gills.
at gills, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 41: The whites, born here, is called ‘gropers,’ [...] Sand-gropers.
at sand-groper, n.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 41: Western Australia is full of old prisoners, black fellers, and white ones too. The whites, born here, is called ‘gropers’.
at groper, n.2
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 103: Lennie peacocking on an enormous hairy-heeled roadster; [...] Tom on a grey stallion.
at hairy-heeled (adj.) under hairy, adj.3
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 207: We want men of experience, men of a wide outlook. Somebody’s got to be the head-piece of this colony.
at head-piece, n.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 285: Fair gave me the bally hump.
at hump, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 68: He didn’t want the young Jackeroo planted on him, to teach any blankey thing to.
at jackaroo, n.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 249: ‘Jam and dog both mean “side”’? ‘Verily.’.
at jam, n.2
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 261: Of all the old sweeps! [...] Tell you what, you look like a lumper, absolutely nothing but a lumper.
at lumper, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 24: Whether you’re a bush-whacker or a lumper you can be a gentleman.
at lumper, n.1
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 49: Yes. Jam, macaroni, cockadoodle. We’re plain people out here-aways, not mantle ornaments.
at macaroni, n.3
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 249: If he’s got a pack, it’s his swag. If he’s only got a blanket and a billy, it’s his bluey and drum. And if he’s got nothing, it’s Waltzing Matilda.
at waltz Matilda, v.
[UK] Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 244: ‘Wot cheer, mate!’ said one, a ruffianly mongrel.
at mongrel, n.
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