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Town Like Alice 183: You picked up some Aussie slang.at Aussie, adj.
Town Like Alice 183: You picked up some Aussie slang. Town Like Alice 78: What can we do to fix this bastard [i.e. a place] so as we stay here tonight?at bastard, n.
Town Like Alice 146: It’s quite possible he’s been out on a blind.at blinder, n.3
Town Like Alice 82: These bloody boongs, they’re always going walkabout.at boong, n.
Town Like Alice 35: A small private hotel [in Malaya] run by an Englishwoman which was, in fact, more or less a chummery for unmarried girls.at chummery, n.
Town Like Alice 76: The way these bloody Nips go on. Makes you chunda.at chunder, v.
Town Like Alice 146: They had him in the cooler for the night.at cooler, n.
Town Like Alice 84: I’ll make darn sure there’s something crook with the truck.at darn, adv.
Town Like Alice 195: Pa’ll beat the daylights out of me when he hears.at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
Town Like Alice 82: You say you’re English, dinky-die? All the way from England?at dinky-di, adv.
Town Like Alice 303: He [...] made a tight, dicey turn round in the gorge with about a hundred feet to spare.at dicey, adj.
Town like Alice 263: They’ll come on to your station and round up the poddys and drive them off on to their own land, and then there’s nothing to say they’re yours. That’s poddy-dodging.at poddy-dodging (n.) under poddy dodger, n.
Town Like Alice 263: ‘What’s a duffer, Joe?’ ‘Why, cattle-duffers – cattle thieves.’.at duffer, n.1
Town Like Alice 225: But look, Joe – this is to be Dutch treat [...] I mean you pay the boat one way and I’ll pay it the other.at Dutch treat, n.
Town Like Alice 172: It’s a fair cow up there [...] It’s got an air-strip, anyway. I don’t suppose it’s got much else.at fair cow (n.) under fair, adj.
Town Like Alice 166: Stuart Hopkinson said cynically, ‘It’s got outbackitis’.at -itis, sfx
Town Like Alice 74: Tell the mucking Nip to get those mucking women shifted back so we can get some light.at mucking, adj.
Town Like Alice 294: Joe Harman’s a clumsy mugger with a car.at mugger, n.3
Town Like Alice 154: But then I come to England and I see Southampton and the sort of way people live there, bombed and muggered up although it is.at muggered, adj.
Town Like Alice 82: It’s a bit more primitive than that. The whatnot’s out in the backyard.at what-not, n.
Town Like Alice 322: He asked me if I would drink tea or beer or plonk. ‘Plonk?’ I asked. ‘Red wine,’ he said.at plonk, n.2
Town Like Alice 113: ‘Why didn’t you stay out there and get a job? You knew the country so well.’ ‘I had a scunner of it, then – in 1945. We were all dying to get home.’.at scunner, n.
Town Like Alice 219: He took a glass and sank half of it.at sink, v.
Town Like Alice 186: Then when they got the water it was stinking with the minerals and the cattle wouldn’t touch it.at stinking with, adj.
Town Like Alice 225: All right, Mrs. Boong, we’ll each pay our own whack.at whack, n.1
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