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[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 61: Amen Snorter (also Bible Basher). Someone with strong religous beliefs.
at amen-snorter (n.) under amen, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 70: White Ant. Someone who betrays his fellow workers.
at white-ant, v.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 24: Fang Artist, applied to (a) a glutton, (b) a constant borrower, or (c) a lecher.
at fang artist, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 24: Fang Artist, applied to [...] a lecher.
at fang artist, n.2
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 54: If she’s always at the window when you come home drunk as Chloe [...] you’ve got a stickybeak on your hands.
at drunk as Chloe, adj.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 48: Rough as Guts. Save this one for the unpolished performance or performer.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 67: Ned Kelly. [...] Anybody who separates an Aussie from his Oscar (Oscar Ash: cash).
at Oscar (Asche), n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 66: The same cocky will get even more snaky (angry) if you name his place of orighin as one of these very rural outposts: The Never-Never, Woop Woop, Back of Bourke, Snake Gully or Beyond the Black Stump.
at back of Bourke under back, adv.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 61: The first thing any full-blooded Aussie does when handling an amen snorter is shorten his denomination to size and add an ‘O’. As in Bappo, Congo, Metho, Presbo, Protto, Salvo, etc.
at bappo, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 75: I don’t care if his mother won Tatt’s. I can’t stand a bar of him.
at not stand a bar of (v.) under bar, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 52: Short of a Gallop. Mild descriptive phrase [for] overplump or out of condition. A more unkind expression is all behind like Barney’s bull.
at all behind like Barney’s bull under barney’s bull, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 26: Big Noter. Thje big note the Big Noter sounds is on his own glorfication [...] In basic Australian, he’s got tickets on himself.
at big noter, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 77: The person involved [...] does his lolly and gets off his bike (i.e. becomes angry).
at get off one’s bike (v.) under bike, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 66: Mutton Bird Eater. A Tasmanian.
at mutton-bird, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 66: The same cocky will get even more snaky (angry) if you name his place of orighin as one of these very rural outposts: The Never-Never, Woop Woop, Back of Bourke, Snake Gully or Beyond the Black Stump.
at beyond the black stump (adj.) under black stump, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 52: Non-Aussies are sometimes surprised to hear that rotten is basic Australian for ‘drunk’. There is also a whole boozey flood of alternatives available, among them blithered, full as a goog, half-cut, molo and snockered.
at blithered, adj.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 31: Bodgied Up [...] This is a handy malicious adjective, especially useful in deflating the egos of people wearing new clothes. As in: In he lobs, bodgied up and smelling like dead horse gully.
at bodgied up (adj.) under bodgie, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 33: The greatest sin against the Australian spirit of mateship is to point the bone at a cobber, i.e. sneak on a friend or leave him in the lurch [Ibid.] 43: Point-the-Bone Merchant. Accuster, often buck-passer.
at point the bone, v.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 62: Boofhead. Person with a head like a boof, mythical Dream Time beast with a head the size of a boabab tree, and brain the size of a pea.
at boofhead, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 34: The opposite of a cow [...] is not bull, but often boomer or bottler, as in ‘a boomer of a day’.
at boomer, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 43: Borak Merchant. A goad or tease. (Compare Brit. mickey-taker).
at borak merchant (n.) under borak, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 32: Bottle-Oh’s Roustabout. The low man on any ladder or totem pole.
at bottle-o’s roustabout (n.) under bottle-o, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 34: The opposite of a cow [...] is not bull, but often boomer or bottler, as in ‘a boomer of a day’.
at bottler, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 64: Bugler. Boaster or skiter.
at bugler (n.) under bugle, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 44: On th Bugle. Earthy Aussie adjective describing an unsavoury smell. [...] ‘You’d beat a garbo’s goat on the bugle’.
at on the bugle (adj.) under bugle, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 64: Bunny. Somebody’s victim.
at bunny, n.1
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 40: Hyde Park Bushman describes [a] city slicker, urban dweller or any other tribesman of the Big Smoke and is usually spoken with scorn by anybody on the Land.
at Hyde Park bushman, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 64: Cabbage-Laner. Resident of Victoria.
at cabbage garden (n.) under cabbage, n.2
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 65: Chalkie (also Schoolie). School teacher.
at chalky, n.
[Aus] A. Chipper Aussie Swearers Guide 34: This [i.e. banter] is called chyacking. Compare US ribbing, Brit. needling.
at chi-ike, v.
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