1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 92: She’s in possession of all her faculties and then some.at and then some!, excl.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 161: The arsehole press is giving her a big show, she must be playing their game.at arsehole, adj.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 38: I’m sure you don’t talk like a milk-bar cowboy at the commune.at milk bar cowboy, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 36: Who begged us to come all the way from Auckland to buck in and give you a hand?at buck in (v.) under buck, v.4
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 38: Us sex-starved bushwackers buried out here in the sticks have to make do with what we can get.at bushwhacker, n.1
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 26: A ‘Queen Street farmer’ was a city slicker who owned land or stock for taxfiddle reasons.at Queen Street cocky, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 162: This is the corniest police trap I ever heard of.at corny, adj.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 38: ‘Godzone. Is that a Maori expression?’ ‘Godzone country, princess, is our proud name for complacent, fascist-governed New bloody Zealand.’.at Godsown, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 38: Hell’s bells and buggy wheels, a real pommy princess from the darling old cobwebby Yuke Kay.at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 120: The fat slob of a middle-aged secretary carrying a torch for her employer and even looking after his illegit.at illegit, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 38: Now don’t get your underwear in a twist, princess.at get one’s knickers in a twist (v.) under knickers, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 53: I’ll phone one or two cobbers of mine, get them to come and have a look-see.at looksee, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 157: If Bertie did kill her there’s no political mileage in it.at mileage, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 161: Bazzer, must you bore the pants off us about this?at bore the pants off (v.) under pants, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 24: We are not piking out, there are other ways we can defend ourselves.at pike out (v.) under pike, v.1
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 37: That padlock is a piss in the hand, princess, when you know how.at piss in the hand (n.) under piss, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 126: Her family packed her off [...] to a very swept-up boarding school. [Ibid.] 167: A suburb so ‘swept up’ and select that the rest of Auckland considered it an uproarious joke.at swept up, adj.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 23: Thornhill replied by calling them yobbos and warning them that they would be chucked out of the meeting unless they stopped yahooing about.at yahoo, v.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 23: Thornhill replied by calling them yobbos and warning them that they would be chucked out of the meeting unless they stopped yahooing about.at yobbo, n.
1985 J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 38: Hey fellers, this sheila’s a beaut [...] We’ve picked ourselves a yummy bit of crumpet.at yummy, adj.