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[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 191: They ‘mouched’ along, their trousers strapped up below the knee, showing glimpses of brown, unwashed skin above the frayed edges of their ‘Prince Alberts’.
at Prince Alberts, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 196: ‘Bail up, do you hear,’ repeated Scarlet.
at bail up! (excl.) under bail up, v.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 127: Why, you are clean pumped! I mean blown!
at blown (out), adj.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 267: I allus keeps a bottle for those as can tell good stuff [...] what they gets from me will never give ’em the blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 192: If humpin’ bluey ain’t work enough for a white man, I don’t know what is.
at hump one’s bluey (v.) under bluey, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 50: I don’t care to bogey in our drinking tank.
at bogey, v.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 279: Hold out your hands, and let me see how you like these bracelets.
at bracelets, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 129: My father in league with bushrangers?
at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 74: A hint dropped in this town set the bush telegraphs riding in all directions. [Ibid.] 188: What’s the name of the bloomin’ bush wire as told yer?
at bush telegraph, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 290: ‘Good-night,’ replied the manager; ‘I hope you won’t get bushed.’ ‘Nae fear!’ cried Douglas, as they rode away.
at bush, v.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 195: The Englishman turned [...] remarked, coolly enough— ‘Bai Jove! I do believe a bushwanger [sic] has come along. How very awkward.’.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 118: Captain Scarlet stole my boss’s best prad, and the sooner he’s lagged the better.
at captain, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 108: What’s that, you blarsted cattle duffer?
at cattle-duffer, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 191: Let there be no bungle. A mistake now may mean a dance in the air for all of us.
at dance on/in (the) air (v.) under dance, v.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 187: ‘Dry up, the lot of you,’ he said, in a low, fierce tone of command.
at dry up, v.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 237: He got the toot in me fisht, ‘And there ut is,’ continued Mrs. Murphy, laying an immense fang on the table.
at fang, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 302: Kicking the black boy he said sharply, ‘Wake up, Jacky.’.
at jacky jacky, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 189: I’ll put a lead pill between the teeth of the first man who dares to open his mouth.
at lead pill (n.) under lead, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 125: ‘Mum’s the word, then,’ said Jim.
at mum’s the word under mum, adj.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 117: ‘My oath!’ ejaculated that worthy.
at my oath!, excl.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 188: Blast yer, weren’t yer rowing too, you neddy?
at neddy, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 189: All the neddies are out of sight.
at neddy, n.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 127: The pater just gave me your note.
at pater, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 190: Don’t fire till all other means fail [...] A squint down your peashooter will satisfy the traps, never fear.
at peashooter, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 237: ‘Lay yure hid back,’ says he, ‘and open yure potatee trap.’.
at potato-trap (n.) under potato, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 118: Captain Scarlet stole my boss’s best prad, and the sooner he’s lagged the better.
at prad, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 127: Why, you are clean pumped! I mean blown!
at pumped, adj.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 188: Blast yer, weren’t yer rowing too, you neddy?
at row, v.1
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 270: A mob of men [...] poured out of the bar door, and started a ‘heading school’ in the road. For half-an-hour the pennies spun into the air amid a chorus of ‘I bar,’ ‘Foul throw,’ and ‘Heads it is!’.
at school, n.
[Aus] K. Mackay Out Back 2: How the blazes do yer mean to make up a ’undred out of yer month’s screw?
at screw, n.1
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