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[Aus] W. Westgarth Aus. Felix 104: The hut would be attacked before ‘piccininni sun.’ [Footnote] : About daylight in the morning.
at piccaninny, adj.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 201: Oh, get along with you! It was only one of Ned’s jokes.
at get along with you!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 10: It suddenly entered Long Jim’s head to cut and run.
at cut and run, v.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 52: Everyone can see you’re as mad as can be because you can’t bring your old dot-and-go-one to the scratch.
at dot and carry one, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 31: None o’ your ethereal, die-away, bread-and-butter misses. There’s something of Till there is.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 209: He laid his bag down and hung up his wide-awake.
at wide-awake, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 13: ‘Oh, bah!’ said the lad, when he found that the jug held only water.
at bah!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix 56: In one hand he carried the letter, in the other the candle-end stuck in a bottle, that was known as a ‘Ballarat-lantern’; for it was a pitchdark night.
at ballarat lantern, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 2: They had to be dragged, some blind drunk, the rest blind stupid from their booze.
at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 2: They had to be dragged, some blind drunk, the rest blind stupid from their booze.
at blind, adv.1
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 10: The ‘bloodhounds’ had begun to track their prey.
at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 32: Oh, blow it, Dick, you’re too fastidious.
at blow it!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 253: ‘Well, I’m blowed!’ was all she could ejaculate. ‘Blowed! . . . that’s what I am.’.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 12: There they both sat [...] one gripping the other’s collar, both too blown to speak.
at blown (out), adj.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 77: Old man didn’t I kick up a bobbery when I heard the news.
at kick up a bobbery (v.) under bobbery, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 168: I’m with you, you old pill-box [...] You’ll cut a jolly sight better figure as an M.D.
at pill-box, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 168: I’m stony-broke once more.
at stone broke, adj.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 25: She’ll come out to ’er daddy soon as ever th’ol’ woman kicks the bucket.
at kick the bucket, v.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 35: Stock-riders and bull-punchers rubbed shoulders with elegants in skirted coats.
at bull-puncher (n.) under bull, n.1
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 218: The well-meaning constable who [...] turned on his bull’s eye for you in a fog.
at bull’s eye, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 196: Mr Urquhart, a jolly, carroty-haired man.
at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 4: They had chummed together on the seventy-odd-mile from Melbourne; had boiled a common billy and slept side by side.
at chum, v.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 26: He gave the man – a stupid clodhopper, but honest and attached – instructions.
at clodhopper, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 223: It was a rough grizzled fellow – a ‘cocky’.
at cocky, n.2
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 21: Now we didn’t come here tonight to confab about getting votes.
at confab, v.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 256: They all looked crooked at him.
at crook, adj.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 63: I don’t believe a blessed thing’s goin’ to come of all young Smith’s danglin’ round. An’ Polly’s still a bit young.
at dangle, v.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 30: Crust first, and though you burst, By the bones of Davy Jones!
at by the bones of Davy Jones! (excl.) under Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 13: Give us a drink, old boy! . . . I’m dead-beat!
at deadbeat, adj.
[Aus] ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 101: They were comparing him, he knew, with the poor old Jeremy Diddler yonder, to the latter’s disadvantage.
at diddler, n.2
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