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A Fence Around the Cuckoo choose

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[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 265: That’s why he’s looking like a wet week.
at like a wet week under like a..., phr.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 90: She didn’t mean anything by this ballyragging.
at ballyrag, v.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 128: ‘Can I take Flash Jack?’ ‘Not to a sheep station. Not that little gangster of a dog. The Big Noise would have a fit.’.
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[Aus] R. Park Fence around the Cuckoo 94: We children had a kind of good humoured rivalry, admittedly, often shouting, ‘Yah yah, Cattledog!’ or ‘Proddyhopper!’ as the case might be.
at cattle dog, n.1
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 115: They say they’ll take over the world. Dingbats.
at dingbats, adj.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 118: We got Grandpa and Grandma now, both a bit dippy.
at dippy, adj.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 128: ‘Can I take Flash Jack?’ ‘Not to a sheep station. Not that little gangster of a dog. The Big Noise would have a fit.’.
at gangster, n.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 136: ‘A gang of jellyheads,’ said Mera.
at gellyhead, n.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 109: My back’s giving me jip.
at give someone gyp (v.) under gyp, n.2
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 128: The Brigadier [...] wore riding breeches (Hun pants) and boots.
at Hun, adj.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 94: That blasted morepork drove the tip-truck over a cutting at the Three Mile! The lorry was totalled.
at mopoke, n.
[Aus] R. Park Fence around the Cuckoo 94: We children had a kind of good humoured rivalry, admittedly, often shouting, ‘Yah yah, Cattledog!’ or ‘Proddyhopper!’ as the case might be.
at proddyhopper, n.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 115: Small, light, easily boiled, sugarbags were a godsend for ‘snagging’. Snagging was a Depression word for bargain-hunting.
at snag, v.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 118: Other snaggers’ attributes appeared in due course in my own stories, as did the unforgettable odour of people wearing aged garments from secondhand shops.
at snagger, n.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 90: A fladdy-faced spalpeen, I was called, and a tom todger, and a bold little crab.
at spalpeen, n.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 90: A fladdy-faced spalpeen, I was called, and a tom todger, and a bold little crab.
at tom todger (n.) under tom, n.1
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 94: That blasted morepork drove the tip-truck over a cutting at the Three Mile! The lorry was totalled.
at total, v.
[Aus] R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 71: Don’t be Uncle Willy. You’ old enough to know why.
at Uncle Willie, adj.
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