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[Aus] Geraldton Guardian (WA) 17 May 3: ‘Roughie’ Maher [...] was a star of great brilliance in last Saturday’s [football] match.
at roughie, n.1
[Aus] Geraldton Guardian (WA) 19 Mar. 3/4: In Sydney 9000 children were dying for the want of the necessaries of life. This was called God’s own country; he called it ‘Hell’s own country’.
at Godsown, n.
[Aus] Geraldton Guardian (WA) 13 Jan. 2/5: Slang [...] You find it first in the yellow journals and the mouths of babes.
at yellow, adj.
[Aus] Geraldton Guardian (WA) 23 July 4/6: He got into an argument with, a native policeman, and, as he admitted [...] ‘clocked'’him, but this he did not regard as a crime.
at clock, v.1
[Aus] Geraldton Guardian (WA) 9 Aug. 🌐 He drove an old Cortina named Rolls Canardly, meaning, rolls down a hill and can hardly get up the next.
at Rolls Canardly, n.
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