1924 L. O’Neil ‘Mate o’ Mine’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 4: Your hand on my shoulder whenever it sagged— ‘Buck up!—and I’d straightaway buck.at buck up!, excl.
1924 L. O’Neil ‘Knots’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 133: [as excl.] Oh, Davy Jones devour my bones! / You haven’t the sense to learn!at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
1924 L. O’Neil ‘Old Salt’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 147: Would they know him now on the Frisco ’front, / Or even in Adelaide?at ’Frisco, n.
1924 L. O’Neil ‘These Degenerate Days’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 136: It’s fallen on a wowser world! It’s plain as copperplate! / For using sinful language now they give the cook the gate!at give someone the gate (v.) under gate, n.
1924 L. O’Neil ‘Mate o’ Mine’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 5: So it’s mate o’mine, we will pal it out / Till the earth drops into the sun.at pal with (v.) under pal, v.
1924 L. O’Neil ‘The Q.’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 19: The Queensland Railway dances [...] The dingo halts his roaming, / To see the headlights of the Q / Far-shining in the gloaming.at Q, n.1
1924 L. O’Neil ‘L’Egyptienne’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 37: I worked an’ belonged to me union, an’ drew down a sizeable screw.at screw, n.1
1924 L. O’Neil ‘L’Egyptienne’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 37: I’d go to a show with me sheila, or maybe hold hands in the park.at sheila, n.1
1924 L. O’Neil ‘Mate o’ Mine’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 4: Oh, mate o’ mine you stuck to me / When my heart was down and out.at stick to, v.
1924 L. O’Neil ‘These Degenerate Days’ in Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 136: It’s fallen on a wowser world! It’s plain as copperplate! / For using sinful language now they give the cook the gate!at wowser, n.2