1992 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.
1992 R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 90: She didn’t mean anything by this ballyragging.at ballyrag, v.
1992 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.
1992 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
1992 R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 115: They say they’ll take over the world. Dingbats.at dingbats, adj.
1992 R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 118: We got Grandpa and Grandma now, both a bit dippy.at dippy, adj.
1992 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.
1992 R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 109: My back’s giving me jip.at give someone gyp (v.) under gyp, n.2
1992 R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 128: The Brigadier [...] wore riding breeches (Hun pants) and boots.at Hun, adj.
1992 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.
1992 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.
1992 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.
1992 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.
1992 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.
1992 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
1992 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.
1992 R. Park Fence Around the Cuckoo 71: Don’t be Uncle Willy. You’ old enough to know why.at Uncle Willie, adj.