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We Bushies choose

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[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 56: Have you never seen / A man with Barcoo Rot?
at Barcoo rot (n.) under Barcoo, n.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 71: ‘Can y’cook?’ asked a bloke. [...] ‘Can y’ bash up a reasonable feed?’.
at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 54: You’re off y’block begorrah!
at off one’s block (adj.) under block, n.1
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 70: He’s a business-like man is this Galloping Ghan.
at ’Ghan, n.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 39: A city wife in Sydney Town / Heard on the National News: / ‘The police have charged the Dubbo man / Who shot two jackeroos’.
at jackaroo, n.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 62: I see you’ve got the jilly knack / Of drafting several ways. [Ibid.] 64: You’ll put the sheep on conveyer belts / And whizz them to the shed, / There’ll be no jilly shearers, / There’ll be a chemist there instead. [Ibid.] 71: Y’shanghaied me Feyers y’jilly rat!
at jilly, adj.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 23: Most publications, what sad change, / Also no longer care [...] They’re more impressed by purple gods / And hefted dinosaurs / Composed by scruffy, bearded mods / With new poetic laws!
at mod, n.2
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 88: I was just a nicker when these lanterns used to flicker.
at nicker, n.1
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 71: But early next morning be picinni’ dawning, / Bold Arthur was back.
at piccaninny, adj.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 77: Now hang on there, boss, don’t get outa y’pram.
at out of one’s pram (adj.) under pram, n.2
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 89: Now you’ve let us down O’Hagen for you’ve joined the city push.
at push, n.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 27: Now what the hell, ain’t it enough / To fight the runty Japs.
at runty, adj.
[Aus] R.D. Magoffin We Bushies 73: he was quite a fair slogger this Dundyboo dogger.
at slogger, n.
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