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Winged Seeds choose

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[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 225: Tare’n ages, it’d be a nasty jar for Paddy, that!
at tare an’ ages!, excl.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 106: The blasted coms, they say, are white-anting the labour movement, stirring up trouble.
at white-ant, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 146: But I’m a back number, these days.
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 275: It gave him no end of satisfaction to bail up Dick and remark chirpily: ‘So you backed the wrong horse, after all, Dick!’.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 23: Then a couple of little beauts turned up in the ripples and I got a thirty ouncer.
at beaut, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 81: She’s giving him the bird tonight, all right.
at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 117: He came to see me after he’d cracked Wally: was a bit upset and that he’d done his block.
at do one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 229: Blow me, Charles, if I don’t feel like buyin’ meself a new suit and goin’ over to Melbourne to try me luck.
at blow me!, excl.1
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 245: We’ve got to line up with the Bolshies, if we get into this war.
at bolshie, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 20: Missus Sally and me were on the road in the old boneshaker, at dawn.
at bone-shaker (n.) under bone, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 106: The blasted coms, they say, are [...] stirring up trouble: ‘Give them the boot in the union and in the A.L.P!’.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 184: Gran tells me you had quite a breeze with Sir Patrick about going out with her and Dinny.
at breeze, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 204: It’s got my goat the way he’s comin’ home boozed, and worryin’ the soul-case out of you.
at soul-case, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 225: Sir Patrick hit the roof when the lawyer informed him that the Misses Gaggin requested him to vacate the rooms.
at hit the ceiling, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 241: They liked to chew over the news in the morning newspaper.
at chew, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 275: All the reactionaries in the town are chewin’ the rag [...] But they’ve got to admit the Red Army’s ‘saved Britain in her hour of gravest peril’.
at chew the rag, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 65: Frisco’s roar of laughter did not put him out of countenance; neither did all the chiacking he got from Tassy and Blunt Pick about his girl friends.
at chi-ike, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 161: Pat and Pam dispatched their [...] brown bread and bacon and cuts of chookie with hearty appetite.
at chook, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 310: I feel outside the ordinary civvy way of life.
at civvie, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 31: ’Course the coms were blamed.
at com, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 185: I feel it [...] You know that. But I’ve got to crack hardy.
at crack hardy (v.) under crack, v.4
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 106: I hate the workers, Bill. I hate the stupid, cowardly crawlers.
at crawler, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 255: I seem to be getting such an old crock, just doddering along.
at crock, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 273: My leg’s gone crook on me.
at go crook (on) (v.) under crook, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 63: Look-out men stood at strategic points to warn players of the approach of the dees.
at D, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 54: ‘Damn his eyes,’ he said, with suitable indignation.
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 56: You can bet your sweet life on that, darl.
at darl, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 357: It means [...] that Australia’s backin’ the Old Dart with $31,500,000 worth of gold a year.
at Old Dart, n.
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 369: Rosy Ann couldn’t keep the dew-drops off the end of her nose. She was sniffin’ and swallowin’ the hot soup as fast as she could.
at dewdrop, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 189: Never thought I could be such a dill as to cry about any man.
at dill, n.1
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