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A Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia choose

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[Aus] W. Australia 3 July 11/5: The accused was a bludger, living on the earnings of prostitutes.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 213: Send ’em out ‘on their ace’ and they’ll probably ‘go camp’ under the first shady tree they come to .
at on one’s ace under ace, n.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 18: ‘And you think the best way to do . . .?’ ‘To beat the tracks,’ I interposed, laughingly.
at beat the tracks (v.) under beat, v.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 79: They decoyed him into the bush and one of their number ‘boned’ him; that is, pointed the magic bone at him. Eight weeks later he was dead.
at bone, v.4
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 20: It was Tuck’s job to find the way; mine to ‘boss up’ the loads, so that nothing might fall from the packs.
at boss up, v.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 221: You writing chaps do get queer bugs at times. What you doing it for—fun?
at bug, n.4
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 202: Damper and ‘bullockys’ joy (treacle) take the place of porridge.
at bullocky’s joy (n.) under bullocky, n.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 78: Milbuka had fled, ‘gone bush’ that morning.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 180: ‘It’s a “southerly buster,”’ said Tuck. [...] In great columns of sand that plunged and rotated as they came, the storm bore down upon us.
at buster, n.1
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 116: I’m here to keep the troughs filled for the ‘donks’.
at donk, n.1
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 18: ‘Motor?’ ‘No . . .! footback!’.
at footback, n.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 221: You’re not going to footpack it, are you?
at footpack it, v.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 29: He is the despised ‘humpie’, the ‘filthy camel’.
at humpy, n.1
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 29: He is the despised ‘humpie’, the ‘filthy camel’, the ‘stinking old long neck’, that ‘mangy brute’ of the traveller, but he is also [...] the great utility animal of the Inland.
at long neck (n.) under long, adj.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 55: We [...] dug a hole for the hips to lie in, and unrolled our ‘nap’.
at nap, n.2
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 255: The ‘nigs’ . . . poor devils [...] We ran a cordon round the hill an’ pepperd ’em until there wasn’t a ‘nig’ showing.
at nig, n.2
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 245: A Luritja ‘boy’ appeared at X’s post with a ‘paper yabber’ from a distant cattle run.
at paper yabber (n.) under paper, adj.
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 209: A desire took possession of me to take a turn at stockbanging. [Ibid.] 212: Young gins are also employed in this capacity and often make better stockbangers than the ‘boys’.
at stockbanger (n.) under stock, n.1
[Aus] A. Russell Tramp-Royal 48: There were no trees there when the Thing had passed. I think we should have fared badly in that ‘willy-willy.’.
at willy-willy, n.
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