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[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 68: ‘Salvation Army in Brisbane [...] Better than either here or the bush.’ ‘Bollicks,’ said the fat man.
at ballocks!, excl.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 69: ‘Musgrove bloody Park!’ Specs growled. ‘Hot as a bodgie fiver! Every vag and winedot in Brisbane sacks out there.’.
at bodgie, adj.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 124: He stared along the [...] bank of black dust and dried mud and sunwarmed buffalo turds. ‘Godforsaken boondocks — what else’d bother to live here?’.
at boondocks, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 68: Specs brooded as he scissored his butts [and] rolled himself a smoke.
at butt, n.1
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 59: ‘Righto, you fellers. Where’s your tickets?’ ‘Up our dingers,’ Loder snarled.
at dinger, n.1
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 73: ‘Bloody fruitcake,’ Charlie rasped.
at fruitcake, n.1
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 110: I ain’t had a grog or a smoke in seven weeks.
at grog, n.1
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 69: ‘Musgrove bloody Park!’ Specs growled. ‘Hot as a bodgie fiver! Every vag and winedot in Brisbane sacks out there.’.
at hot, adj.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 173: You’re no good [...] And you never will be any good. You'll go round for the rest of your life with the arse out of your strides, like the man outside Hoyt’s.
at man outside Hoyt’s (n.) under man, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 114: Strike me, what a bloody riot!
at strike me! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 71: Why’n’t you get them mullocky strides fumigated?
at mullock, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 114: ‘What’re you doing now?’ ‘Plasterer’s offsider.’.
at offsider, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 171: You pong like a camel-driver’s jockstrap. Why’n’t yer have a bath?
at pong, v.2
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 69: ‘Musgrove bloody Park!’ Specs growled. ‘Hot as a bodgie fiver! Every vag and winedot in Brisbane sacks out there.’.
at sack out (v.) under sack, v.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 105: ‘Kitchen?’ Chikker cried, aghast. ‘Bloody slushies?’.
at slushy, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 68: Just duck behind the hedge with a couple o’ bottles of steam.
at steam, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 71: Why’n’t you get them mullocky strides fumigated?
at strides, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 113: It was a lively enough night, with Big Bob plunking on his thunderbox while Dally strummed a guitar.
at thunderbox (n.) under thunder, n.
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 169: Don’t look like a drunk to me. Vag, maybe.
at vag, n.1
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 171: Yah, yer bloody winedot [...] You pong like a camel-driver’s jockstrap.
at wine-dot (n.) under wine, n.1
[Aus] P. Pinney Restless Men 71: If crabs was a zack each you’d be a millionaire.
at zac, n.
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