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[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 4 May n.p.: Dr Waugh’s Baking Powder makes Pastry [...] ‘light as air’ and by its use is proved to be wholesome, ‘bosker,’ and in every way [...] most desirable.
at bosker, adj.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at booby-hatch, n.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at do a carrington (v.) under Carrington, n.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at clink, n.1
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at john hop, n.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: A bloke has a right to get took to a proper stone jug and not a rotten old wooden kennel.
at stone jug, n.1
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at kinchin lay (n.) under kinchin, n.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2: The lockup at Watson Bay [...] isn’t fit to put a man in. Some people, perhaps, don’t care much, especially if they are shicker, where they gets lumbered.
at lumbered, adj.1
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at lumbered, adj.1
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.
at pilgarlic, n.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2: The lockup at Watson Bay [...] isn’t fit to put a man in. Some people, perhaps, don’t care much, especially if they are shicker, where they gets lumbered.
at shicker, adj.
[Aus] Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 10 Dec. 22/5: He is a bosker tradesman and cusotmers can rely on receiving the best attention from him.
at bosker, adj.
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