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[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 23 May 7/1: They are working men like ourselves [...] depriving us from earning our bread? I feel ropable and bloodthirsty when I think of it.
at ropable, adj.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 31 Aug. n.p.: I’ve got a cheque here: I got it at ’gaffing’ at Duaringa.
at gaff, v.1
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 31 Aug. 26/4: He did not tell Constable Esplin that he knew the cheque was stolen, but that Green, seeing that he was ‘shiggared’ rung it in on him.
at shickered, adj.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 16 Oct. 2/3: Grouser Grumps [...] The children called her Grousy Grumps, though Gladys was her name.
at grouse, v.1
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 16 June 41/2: There is a splendid chance ahead in this country, and it is our duty to go back and tell our Government and our men and women that [...] ‘God’s own country’ is open to them.
at Godsown, n.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 27 Oct. 8/4: ‘Thundering dingbats,’ exclaimed the drover.
at dingbat, n.6
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 27 Oct. 8/4: ‘Thundering dingbats,’ exclaimed the drover.
at thundering, adj.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 19/1: Poor Bunghole swore till all was blue.
at till all is blue, phr.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 19/1: Hello there, you old bounder.
at bounder, n.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 19/1: Poor Bunghole swore till all was blue.
at bunghole, n.1
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 18/4: With bottles emptied, nine of ten, he’d roused himself to sing... / [...] Before you could as much as sneeze, / the fantods brought their king.
at fantod, n.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 19/1: If it is poison, well - by gee! - an antidote’s the thing.
at gee!, excl.
[US] Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 19/1: If i thought it would nark my people [...] I’d marry her twice.
at nark, v.1
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 104: If you ever fall out with O’Rourke it’s all up with you ...
at all up with under all up, adj.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 14: The mother especially gave me a pain in the ass.
at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 42: You can take the job, my job and his job and you can shove them up your ass.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 169: She had such a marvellous ass.
at ass, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 150: He was like a dodo which buries its head in the sand and whistles out of its ass-hole.
at asshole, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 78: Did you ever take a good look at her ass ... how it’s spreading, I mean? In five years she’ll look like Aunt Jemima.
at Aunt Jemima, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 194: Finally I decided to make an end of it by turning her over and back-scuttling her.
at backscuttle, v.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 253: Don’t let that sour-balled puss muck up your life for you.
at sour-balled, adj.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 93: If you let them get you by the balls you’re an idiot.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 232: Before the week was out I had a discharge, and after that I figured it would be blueballs or rocks in the groin.
at blue balls (n.) under balls, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 96: She has the loose, jaunty swing and perch of the double-barrelled sex.
at double-barrelled, adj.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 236: I felt like batting her one in the eye.
at bat, v.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 247: Plato had an idea or two in his bean, yes sir, yes siree.
at bean, n.1
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 62: I had to have something under my belt to carry on, and I wanted something nourishing.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 252: And when I put it over I’ll put it over big ...
at big, adv.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 214: The conjugal orgy in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
[US] H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 178: I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto.
at blotto, adj.
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