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The Banshee and the Bullocky choose

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[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 64: No tobacco means that you don’t get your vitamins, and you’re likely to get scurvy and Barcoo rot.
at Barcoo rot (n.) under Barcoo, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 28: ‘Blankety blank dash blank,’ said Charlie. ‘You got the whole blanking tree to dash land in and you blanky dash dash dash have to land near me.’.
at blankety-blank, phr.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 29: ‘Ah, get blocked, yer whingein’ blanks, or I’ll job yers’ [...] which shut them up.
at block, v.2
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 104: His mate had spotted them and drummed him in time for him to blow through.
at drum, v.2
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 13: Didn’t they just wire into that jam!
at wire in, v.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 29: ‘Ah, get blocked, yer whingein’ blanks, or I’ll job yers’ [...] which shut them up.
at job, v.1
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 100: Scotty got a bit maggoty about this.
at maggoty, adj.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 125: ‘Strike me blue,’ said Angus.
at strike me blue! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 30: Ah, nick off, Martha, an’ give ’im a go.
at nick off (v.) under nick, v.3
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 10: Arch went offsiding for a bullocky.
at off-side, v.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 65: A little prawnie bloke [...] went to Emu Park to get a few hanks of twine to mend his nets.
at prawnie, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 12: The old bloke asked Arch if he could camp there [...] Arch said ‘Ribuck’, an expression he’d picked up in France in 1917.
at ryebuck!, excl.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 105: This Pierre was a scranbasher from way back.
at scran-basher (n.) under scran, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 64: The old nanny goat got into their scranbag [...] and ate all their flour.
at scran-bag (n.) under scran, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 40: More like big skites. Reckon they’ve been everywhere and seen the lot.
at skite, n.
[Aus] B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 33: His offsider was a long inconsiderable streak of a bloke.
at (long) streak of misery (n.) under streak, n.
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