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Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems choose

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[Aus] L. O’Neil Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 2: For a red-blooded Aussie is he.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] L. O’Neil Dinkum Aussie and Other Poems 3: It’s a dinkum Australia for me!
at dinkum, adj.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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
[Aus] 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.
[Aus] 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
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