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Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 115: I tell yer, I begun ter feel real queer. Things didn’t seem to be above board somehow.at above board, adj.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 115: I tell yer, I begun ter feel real queer. Things didn’t seem to be above board somehow. Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 131: ‘Are there many about here?’ / ‘Eny Gorsquantity.’.at any God’s quantity, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 214: Bluff you – you double-barrelled idiot, come in an’ see!at double-barrelled, adj.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 121: Missus – well, that beats cock-fighting!at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 151: ‘A cricketer yer call yerself! [...] By the jumpin’ wallaby, I’ll bowl you out!’ Whizz! ‘I’ll make a cricketer of yer!’.at jumping cats!, excl.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 134: ‘I suppose he’s at liberty to go where he pleases.’ ‘I s’pose he is. But he ain’t at liberty to cop out on my tomahawk an’ terbacca. You sent him ter pump the blacks.’.at cop out, v.1
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 118: I thought there was something crook, ’cos that there dog sticks to the old woman like tar to a blanket.at crook, adj.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 133: ‘Yer seem down on it this mornin’,’ said Jarvers sulkily. ‘Have I not good reason to be?’ she returned, with tears in her eyes.at down, adv.1
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 92: Then Noel picked up his dunnage an’ left, an’ we never saw any more of him from that day to this.at dunnage, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 188: ‘[S]he’s got away with 1130 quid of your money.’ ‘What! [...] all in the soup?’ ‘Ev’ry mother’s son,’ said Tunstal Jack.at every mother’s son, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout 116: This ain’t no jim-jams, I ain’t tasted a drop since five months ago, when I got blind drunk at Paddy Flynn’s; an’ I didn’t see any jumpin’ fantods then.at fantod, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 119: She must’ve forgot ter take the ladder back, in ’er ’urry. No doubt she was flurried and flummoxed an’ all that, poor devil.at flummoxed, adj.2
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 130: Good mind to do a get with it, an’ let her rip. [...] He don’t want no gold now, anyway.at get, n.3
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 96: ‘Allan, you are not here to watch my father, are you?’ ‘Watch your grandmother!’ cried Allan, indignantly, ‘I come here to see one who is more to me than all the sheep in the world.’.at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 116: ‘Some men, you know, [...] see astonishing things and hear most extraordinary sounds after drink.’ ‘I’ve been through that mill,’ he said, with a touch of impatience. ‘This ain’t no jim-jams, I ain’t tasted a drop since five months ago.’.at jim-jams, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 88: Joe was reg’lar knocked bandy. Most men would ’ave shied clear off her after the dam racket; but Noel wasn’t built that way. He was dead nuts on Joe, an’ didn’t mind goin’ through a little fire an’ water for ’er.at knock someone bandy (v.) under knock, v.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 186: Oh, tell them that you just said it for a lark. It’ll be alright. They’ll be that delighted to find it was only a mulga that they’d toast you as ‘a jolly good fellow’.at mulga wire(s) (n.) under mulga, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 47: Many a time he went speeding back to the homestead for his natural, with the boys galloping at his heels, yelling threats of vengeance, cracking stock-whips, and occasionally firing a gun.at for one’s natural under natural, n.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 119: Seemed plain ter me as Garron ’ad left ’is team at the station an’ rode ’ome; ’as a kick-up with the ole gerl over something – God knows wot – an’ she stooms him out – accidental, as yer might say. Then she hits on the black stump as an orlright place ter ’ide im, [...] so she’d easy enough lug ’im up there an’ drop ’im in.at stoom out, v.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 179: Later on, when a little bit merry and pot-valiant, he proposed to her straight out, and Susan, to his unutterable joy and surprise, lent him a willing ear.at pot-valiant (adj.) under pot, n.1
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 230: Once you say to me: ‘When you come back again, Mr. Hassan?’ Now you say: ‘Go to the pot!’ Ah, well, every dog have his day.at go to the pot (v.) under pot, n.1
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 231: In the meantime the foreigner had become infatuated with the fresh beauty of Kate Leeson, and for months he had looked upon himself as the ‘right bower.’.at right bower (n.) under right, adj.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 84: [T]he third belonged to a thievin’, slop-made scoundrel named Noel Crocker.at slop-made (adj.) under slop, n.2
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 118: He was expected back that day, an’ he mostly lands chock-a-block with news from down country, an’ often as not with a ‘square-face.’.at square face (n.) under square, adj.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 47: Then the boys would set after him, vowing to thump him into a mummy if they caught him.at thump, v.
Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 92: If old Noel ’ad run straight for another day, he’d have got it for a dead certainty’ an’ who can say, with that in his fist, he wouldn’t ’ave yarded the widder?at yard, v.2
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