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[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 283: What’s up, Deb? [...] Got a face on you like a wet week.
at like a wet week under like a..., phr.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 238: He’s all in.
at all in, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 93: It was thought a pity a good lump of a young fellow like Aggie Graeme should be knocking round with Barney Brennan.
at knock around, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 278: I’m happy as larry!
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 200: She’ll die, sure as God made little apples, if we don’t get her away.
at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 298: His barrackers shouted ‘You’ve got it, Niel!’.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 290: Mary Ann Colburn and Mrs. Pennyfather were [...] afraid to miss the fun of the obstacle race or the old woman’s race they had both entered for, and had been barracking each other about all the morning.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 62: Lord, but you’re the horse I been looking for all me life [...] got to be mates, my beauty.
at beauty, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 7: Chris working up the excitement [...] brandishing his piece of bark and belting the polers.
at belt, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 6: She [a cart] ought to go like a bird.
at go like a bird (v.) under bird, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 241: Blarst them and their saws. Blarst ’em!
at blast, v.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 54: We’ll learn Mr. Leslie de-bloody-Gaze how to catch brumbies.
at bloody, adv.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 210: What I always say ... there isn’t a hash house in the sou’-wst ... where you can get a blow out like you can here.
at blow-out, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 62: When the Boss was blown, Red stretched out the stick [...] the brumby snorted and turned away.
at blown (out), adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 189: Rushing up from the creek, ‘starbolic’ as the men used to say.
at stark bollock naked, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 295: It’ll be fixed which one of us is going to win. Depends on the books.
at book, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 94: Got too many children and grandchildren, black, white and brindle, to worry about Ted and his brats.
at brindle, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 199: At Red’s movement and brush away, he screamed: ‘Y’re not going to clear off, Red Burke?’.
at brush, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 20: Come up, you lazy boggers!
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 50: The dirty, boggerin’ cows!
at buggering, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 11: Red Burke was the youngest bullocky on the Karri to own his team, and one of the best drivers.
at bullocky, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 75: They understood [...] why Red had gone bush and loafed round brumby hunting.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 93: He [...] never bothered to pay back what he had cadged from a hard-up mate, even.
at cadge, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 140: She wondered if her chiacking of Red about the bullocks had put him off coming.
at chi-ike, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 88: Got me, y’ blasted, cock-eyed Pommy? Tell him.
at cock-eyed, adj.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 76: Kitty married Gaze’s brother . . . the pommy cocky who’s got Drake’s old place.
at cocky, n.2
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 46: Combo’s what they call a man tracks round with a gin.
at combo, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 200: The river’s a cow, this time of the year.
at cow, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 184: All that there was of him was grit really. He was so crack-hardy and chirpy always.
at crack hardy (v.) under crack, v.4
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 107: Be boiling a billy presently. Better come and crib with us, Red.
at crib, v.6
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