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[Aus] Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic.) 14 Jan. 2/6: Don’t be hoggish. This is his other girl’s night.
at hoggish, adj.
[Aus] Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic.) 14 Jan. 2/5: A long-haired scientific crank.
at longhaired, adj.
[Aus] Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic.) 30 Mar. 2/6: He got dull and mopish, drank slops to satiety, / Which made the dame curse the tee-totalist society.
at slop, n.1
[Aus] Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic.) 3 Aug. 3/1: I gave him a nice new, comfortable drop of Yan Yean to sleep in every night.
at Yan Yean, n.
[Aus] Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic.) 16 July 3/4: ‘I ask you to be guided by me once more, and lay all you can against Sunlight at the short price.’ ‘What! go for the gloves, you mean, on the principle that you may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb’.
at go (in) for the gloves (v.) under glove, n.
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