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Daily News in Austral Eng. (1898) 162/2: The Bishop of Manchester [...] assures us that no one can possibly understand the difficulties and the troubles of a Colonial [...] clergyman until he has [...] struggled through what they used to call ‘glue-pots’. Traveller’s Note 12 Dec. in Austral Eng. (1898) 132: A bush cook said to me to-day, we gave each sundowner a pannikin of dust. in Austral Eng. (1898) 72/1: Modern. Up-country manservant on seeing his new mistress: ‘My word! a real lady! she’s no bush-scrubber!’. Austral Eng. 11/2: Australian flag, n. Hot climate and country work have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a belt or leather strap round the top of trousers instead of braces. This often causes a fold in the shirt protruding all round from under the waistcoat, which is playfully known as ‘the Australian Flag.’. E.E. Austral Eng. 14/1: In the back-blocks [...] where hotels are naturally scarce and inferior, the traveller asks for hospitality [and] is always made welcome. There is no idea of anything underhand on the part of the traveller, yet the custom is called back-slanging. Austral Eng. 16/2: Banana-land, n. slang name for Queensland, where bananas grow in abundance. Banana-lander, n. slang for a Queenslander. Austral Eng. 20/1: Barcoo Vomit, n. a sickness occurring in inhabitants of various parts of the high land of the interior of Australia. It is characterized by painless attacks of vomiting, occurring immediately after food is taken, followed by hunger, and recurring as soon as hunger is satisfied. Austral Eng. 52/2: Brickfielder. [...] The brickfields lay to the south of Sydney, and when, after a hot wind from the west or north-west, the wind went round to the south, it was accompanied by great clouds of dust, brought up from the brickfields. Austral Eng. 73/1: Butcher, n. South Australian slang for a long drink of beer, so-called [it is said] because the men of a certain butchery in Adelaide used this refreshment regularly; cf. ‘porter’ in England. Austral Eng. 94/2: Colonial goose, n. a boned leg of mutton stuffed with sage and onions. Austral Eng. 390/2: Roaring Horsetails, n. a slang name for the Aurora Australis. Austral Eng. 216: The bird is generally called only a jackass, and this is becoming contracted into the simple abbreviation of Jack [AND]. Austral Eng. 223/1: Joey (2) slang used for a baby or little child. Austral Eng. 291/1: Merinoes, Pure, n. [...] the ‘very first families.’. Austral Eng. 313/1: Nailrod, n. a coarse dark tobacco smoked by bushmen. The name alludes to the shape of the plug, which looks like a thin flat stick of liquorice. It is properly applied to the imported brand of ‘Two Seas,’ but is indiscriminately used by up-country folk for any coarse stick of tobacco. (ref. to 1862) Austral Eng. 209/2: Identity, Old, n. phrase denoting a person well known in a place. A term invented in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1862, in a popular topical song, by Mr. R. Thatcher, an improvisator. In the song the ‘Old Identity,’ the former resident of Dunedin, was distinguished from the ‘New Iniquity’ as the people were termed who came from Australia. Austral Eng. 324/2: Nut, n. (2) Dare-devil, etc. ‘Tommy the Nut’ was the alias of the prisoner who, according to the story, was first described as ‘a larrikin’ by Sergeant Dalton. Austral Eng. 333/1: Overlander, n. [...] (2) A slang name for a Sundowner. Austral Eng. 339/1: Pannikin-boss, or Pannikin-overseer, n. [...] applied colloquially to a man on a station, whose position is above that of the ordinary station-hand, but who has no definite position of authority, or is only a ‘boss’ or overseer in a small way. Austral Eng. 408/2: Scrubber (3) The word is sometimes applied to mankind in the slang sense of an ‘outsider.’. Austral Eng. 410/1: Shagroon, n. When the province of Canterbury, in New Zealand, was first settled, the men who came from England were called Pilgrims, all others Shagroons, probably a modification of the Irish word Shaughraun. Austral Eng. 415/2: Shepherd, v. [...] The robbers knowing he had so much coin about him, determined to shepherd him until an opportunity occurred of robbery with impunity. Austral Eng. 416/1: Shicer (2) A man who does not pay his debts of honour. Austral Eng. 456/1: Tamabroora [...] More generally known as ‘A shilling in and the winner shouts’. Austral Eng. 125/2: To be ‘plucked,’ or ‘ploughed,’ or ‘spun,’ i.e. to fail an examination. Austral Eng. 437/2: Stick up, v.tr. (3) Humorously applied to a collector or a beggar. Austral Eng. 438/1: Sticker-up, n. a bushranger. Austral Eng. 454: Taipo [...] a New Zealand word for devil, often applied by settlers to a vicious horse, or as a name for a dog. Austral Eng. 472/2: Toe-ragger, n. In the bush a term of abuse; though curiously in one or two parts of New South Wales the word ‘toey,’ which is derived from it, is a term of praise, a ‘swell.’. Austral Eng. 479/2: Trickett, n. slang name for a long drink of beer in New South Wales, after Trickett, the New South Wales champion sculler.