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[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 13 May 4/2: Complainant called her a — cow — bitch and other offensive names whereupon my sister boxed her ears.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 28 Feb. 1s/8: ‘I’m pleased ye think sae,’ answered Sawney.
at Sawney, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 19 July 10/2: And after her experiences the ‘girl husband’ is all in favor of being a man. ‘It is,’ she says, ‘so much easier to live as a man than a girl’.
at husband, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 19 July 10/2: The annals of fiction do not contain a more extraordinary romance than that of these two girls, who loved one another so much that in order to be together one put on man’s clothes and lived and worked as a man, while the other posed as ‘his’ wife.
at wife, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times 23 Feb. 10/2: ‘What does smoodging mean?’ [...] ‘It means cuddling’.
at smoodge, v.
[Aus] Horsham Times 19 May 1s/7: Used binder twine has many uses and is rightly called the cocky’s friend.
at cocky’s friend (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 7 July 4/2: The boy who ‘plays the wag’ need not think that his devious ways of avoiding school [...] goes unwatched.
at play the wag (v.) under wag, n.1
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 23 July 12/6: Should the brain-wave occur to a strike leader: ‘Shame!’ cry the bosses, ‘he’s trying the issue to tangle’.
at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: McPherson and McTavis, and the bonny wee McGloon, / Will have a ‘dock an’ doris’ wi’ McPhee.
at dock-and-doris, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: Ole Mick Molloy, a brothy bhoy.
at b’hoy, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: Oh, strike! just look at ole Tom Croft, ’e takes th’ blinkin’ scone.
at take the cake, v.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: Cows, an’ chooks a feed er two.
at chook, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: We’re goin’ ter th’ footie in th’ Ford.
at footie, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: Oh, strike! just look at ole Tom Croft, ’e takes th’ blinkin’ scone / Now don’t ’e look some guyver with ’is ’orde.
at guiver, n.1
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Sept. 7/4: Oh, Ma ’as got ’er flash togs on an’ Sarah’s lit up too.
at lit (up), adj.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 8 Nov. 13/3: Mrs Quizzy: And what is your husband doing for a living now?
at quizzy, adj.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 14 Aug. 2/3: To a charge of drunkenness in the main street last Friday, accused pleaded guilty [...] Hamilton desired for his own sake to be placed under what was known as ‘the black fellow’s act,’ i.e., prohibiting him from obtaining liquor in the town.
at blackfellows’ act, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 28 Aug. 8/6: [headline] A Cow Cockie’s Luck.
at cow cocky (n.) under cow, n.1
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 13 Nov. 5/3: I am a great believer in goanna oil.
at goanna oil (n.) under goanna, n.1
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 8 May 2/5: [headline] Shandygaff Petrol. the adulteration of petrol.
at shandygaff, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 23 June 10/6: It’s just a grouse, a silly unthinking, and illogical grouse.
at grouse, n.2
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 4 Mar. 1/3: A ‘Hayseed’ Party [...] a distinctly rural atmosphere and with the particpants appropriately attired.
at hayseed, adj.
[Aus] Horsham Times 12 Nov. 8/5: Most of the crowd were merely bystanders [...] watching the three first-class spruikers.
at spruiker, n.
[Aus] Horsham Times (Vic.) 15 Feb.3/6: [cartoon caption] Flea Circus.
at flea circus (n.) under flea, n.
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