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[Aus] ‘Statement of Jacky Jacky’ in G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes (1852) I 118: Mr. Kennedy said to me, ‘Oh, Jacky Jacky, shoot ’em! shoot ’em!’.
at jacky jacky, n.
[Aus] ‘Statement of Jacky Jacky’ in G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes (1852) I 251: Two black gins and a good many piccaninnies.
at piccaninny, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes III 17: Let no man having, in common phrase, ‘a shingle short’ try this country. He will pass his days in Tarban Creek Asylum!
at shingle short, a, adj.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes III 61: Many a gudeman [...] without the guardianship of his thrifty dame would have returned drunk as an owl.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 277: The system [...] was nothing short of ‘making ducks and drakes’ of the Crown’s most valuable property.
at ducks and drakes, n.1
[Aus] in G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 63: Mr. A Gray begs to remind [...] the lovers of harmony that he has re-opened his Free and Easy on Saturday evenings.
at free-and-easy, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 56: If they could have a taste of one of the ‘fast’ regiments of former days – just to put them through a course of Tom-and-Jerryism.
at tom-and-jerryism (n.) under tom and jerry, n.1
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 155: ‘Me eat her!’ replied the other [...] This was certainly one way to ‘put away’ a surplus wife!
at put away, v.
[Aus] (con. 1830s) G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 179: Bail up – or you’re dead men!
at bail up! (excl.) under bail up, v.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 152: One or two fat constables full of beans and with nothing to do.
at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes III 90: Oh! bedad, his word’s law in that house!
at bedad!, excl.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 139: The view hence is worth the trouble of an afternoon stroll to any one with tolerable lungs. It was not quite a case of ‘bellows to mend’ with myself.
at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes 17: A big-wig on the Bench, or [...] a big-wig in the Colonial Office.
at bigwig, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 126: A halter for the gallows-bird.
at gallows-bird, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 235: The best we can hope for the poor blackeys is, that [...] they may become voluntary labourers for hire.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes III 30: Mille murthers! there go the praties to blazes.
at go to blazes (v.) under blazes, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 119: ‘Then blow me but I’ll make you,’ thundered the A.B. seaman.
at blow!, excl.1
[Aus] in G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 368: [The] liver, that storehouse of mortal misery, bile, blue pill, and blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 173: Yield in the King’s name, ye bog-trotting villains!
at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 46: [of Sydney] At length comes the expected ‘Brickfielder,’ drifting the pulverized abominations into every pore of the human frame.
at brickfielder (n.) under brick, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 385: Pretty young girls, dressed in mats and blankets [...] and native ‘buff,’ manifested, without reserve.
at buff, n.1
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 228: The native [...] has as good a right to beef and mutton as John Bull-calf, the Anglo-Australian, has to kangaroo-tail soup.
at bull-calf, n.1
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 19: Bunyip became, and remains, a Sydney synonym for impostor, pretender, humbug, and the like.
at bunyip, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 83: The Brickfielder, or, as the Port Jackson boatmen call it, the Sútherly Búster. [Ibid.] 84: One of the greatest miseries of the Southerly Burster is [etc.].
at southerly buster, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 53: A sort of ‘loafers’ known as the Cabbage-tree mob, a class whom, in the spirit of the ancient tyrant, one might excusably wish had but one nose in order to make it a bloody one!
at cabbage-tree mob, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 54: Unaware of the propensities of the Cabbagites, he was by them furiously assailed.
at cabbagite, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 213: His soul-case looked in the highest preservation – for he was naturally of athletic frame.
at soul-case, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes III 284: ‘Chips,’ it must be confessed, has the more lucrative – not to call it, better trade!
at chips, n.1
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 139: Two excellent inns at Paramatta, which must be chiefly supported by the jaunting cits of Sydney.
at cit, n.
[Aus] G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes I 384: A clip on the head that at home would not do a chap a morsel of harm.
at clip, n.2
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