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[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection (1953) 5: So we humped it—and talk about a drag!
at hump, v.1
[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection (1953) 24: Thought you had decided to let them rip?
at let rip, v.
[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection (1953) 20: The scamp [...] to leave me just when I wanted help.
at scamp, n.
[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection (1953) 23: It’ll be a stinger tonight.
at stinger, n.
[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection (1953) 6: The horse was an old ‘tuppy’ mare that Dad used to straddle.
at tuppy, adj.
[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection (1964) 114: When Dad kicked Billy Bearup out of our door [...] and some days later chased him through the sliprails at the point of a loaded gun, Billy didn’t come back to see Sarah any more - at least not while Dad was about.
at bear-up, n.
[Aus] ‘Steele Rudd’ On Our Selection 161: ‘Supposin’ the chap ain’t dead, but?’ Regan persisted.
at but, adv.
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