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Coonardoo 138: The abos are different – nicer than any I’ve ever seen before.at abo, n.
Coonardoo 138: The abos are different – nicer than any I’ve ever seen before. Coonardoo 97: I don’t want you to go mucking round with gins. But I’d rather a gin than a Jessica.at muck about, v.
Coonardoo 256: I’m all in, Hugh [...] Rough as bags and all that.at all in, adj.
Coonardoo 22: Ted was rough as bags.at ...a bag under rough as..., adj.
Coonardoo 233: I’ve bagged one of your hats, Dad.at bag, v.
Coonardoo 48: I thought you’d be glad to get the baggage off your hands.at baggage, n.
Coonardoo 246: You should ’ve heard him beef it out. We was singin’ and playing half the night sometimes.at beef (it) out (v.) under beef, v.1
Coonardoo 20: And I’ve warned Paddy Hanson to look after Hughie if Sam does get on a bender.at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
Coonardoo 150: Give them a bit of pain killer or a dose of castor oil when they’ve got a bingee ache.at bingy, n.
Coonardoo 157: Gins work out better in this country. They don’t rowse, and you know where you are with ‘em. They know where you are when you’ve got a bit in.at have a bit on (v.) under bit, n.1
Coonardoo 170: And there was black-birding too ... I’ve seen blacks brought in, in chains for the pearlers’ crews. [...] A pearler I knew black-birded.at blackbirding, n.
Coonardoo 309: You’ll have to forgive me if I blither like that occasionally.at blither, v.
Coonardoo 216: Warieda had been ‘boned’ and was dying.at bone, v.4
Coonardoo 306: All in now ... rotten with disease, and booked for the island.at booked, adj.1
Coonardoo 62: You’re not boozin’ up on my whisky.at booze up, v.
Coonardoo 306: Who do you think I saw in the port, the other day? Coonardoo! And you never saw such an old break-up.at break-up, n.
Coonardoo 107: Lost me tracks. Was fair bushed when Coonardoo found me.at bushed, adj.
Coonardoo 311: Bob had letters in his pocket for Hugh which would put the capper on all this misery and desolation.at capper, n.1
Coonardoo 300: You know Monty, damned old hard case, one of the hardest doers in the Nor’-West.at hard case, n.
Coonardoo 60: ‘Everything looks just the same,’ Hughie said. ‘But it isn’t,’ Sam replied. ‘Not by long chalks.’.at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
Coonardoo 231: We’re going to be cobbers, old dear, aren’t we?at cobber, n.2
Coonardoo 300: All burnt she was, her wounds fly-blown. Monty washed ’em out with Condy’s for her.at condy, n.
Coonardoo 179: I’ll see you get a fair crack of the whip now, Mr. Watt.at fair crack of the whip, n.
Coonardoo 233: None of your old crocks.at crock, n.2
Coonardoo 75: I’ll have to read up these Dago goddesses a bit.at dago, adj.1
Coonardoo 156: I got one of these ding-dong gramophones up, and we could have a bit of music.at ding-dong, adj.1
Coonardoo 300: You know Monty, damned old hard case, one of the hardest doers in the Nor’-West.at doer, n.2
Coonardoo 34: The white people feasted, and sang and went mad with the whisky they drank at this time. It was Christmas they called their pink-eye. [Ibid.] 300: That’s the worst of abos [...] They’ve got to go bush or pink-eye every now and then.at pink-eye, n.
Coonardoo 312: Give me the fiver.at fiver, n.
Coonardoo 54: Sam Geary had been known as a ‘gin-shepherder’ for some time and a family of half-castes swarmed about his verandas.at gin-shepherd (n.) under gin, n.1
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