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[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 130: ‘Strike me x-y-z bloody roan an’ so-and-so purple,’ he roared.
at so-and-so, adj.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 66: Eat your bickie and shut up.
at bikkie, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 184: If I ever go back to that louse-bound shack / I’ll give that boss some wingein’; / I’ll shove the lot in his old brown blot, / Startin’ with his bloody engine.
at blot, n.1
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 157: He’d bet a clap o’ thunder to a goose’s blurt most quacks had never heard of him.
at blurt, n.2
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 21: ‘Don’t give a bugger,’ the mailman said.
at not give a bugger (v.) under bugger, n.3
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 14: Other bloke comes back to camp with supplies from town . . . box of groceries, few cases o’ Bundy.
at bundy, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 80: Let’s have a Captain Cook.
at Captain Cook, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1995) 51: ‘A seven o’ beer,’ Bill said. The Boss said, ‘Bum. Give him a fifteen. He’s from the Territory; there’s a drought out there’.
at fifteen, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1995) 7: ‘When you get sick of flogging the semi, and if the drought doesn’t break, make your way across’.
at flog, v.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 101: Gawstrike, now I seen every bloody thing.
at gaw, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 112: At the moment, he’s having a Glass of lunch .
at glass of lunch (n.) under glass, n.2
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 184: If I ever go back to that louse-bound shack / I’ll give that boss some wingein’.
at lousebound (adj.) under louse, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 1: That’s the time to knock off and lubricate the tonsils.
at lubricate, v.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1995) 176: The Skipper blew up. ‘Strike me bloody roan an’ purple...don’t you know better than to bring bloody stew on a Reef trip?’.
at strike me roan! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 16: Poms and Pekes, Poodles and Pugs [...] Mutts and Mongs.
at mong, n.1
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 10: The best way to start taperin’ orf is to put some coffee in your rum.
at taper off, v.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 157: Hobbling up and down to the shouse with a guts-ache and a crook ankle.
at shouse, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 64: Bill reckoned he wasn’t cut out to be a shouse mechanic. [...] Ned said later he was good at it.
at shouse, adj.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 82: A bottle o’ stubby. That sure-as-god good strong ice-cold Aussie beer.
at stubbie, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 10: We been on the turps for five days.
at on the turps under turps, n.
[Aus] J. O’Grady Gone Troppo (1969) 152: That ziff of yours would go well under a sombrero.
at ziff, n.2
[Aus] S. Lloyd Gone Troppo 224: Mexican breakfast is ‘a Coke, a cigarette and a fart’ .
at Mexican breakfast (n.) under Mexican, adj.
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