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[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 123: He described him [...] as being ‘as silly as a wet hen’.
at ...a (wet) hen under silly as…, adj.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 36: You want to use your block a bit sometimes.
at use one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 23: Cow-spanking isn’t a life at all. No, you wouldn’t catch me working for any lousy cocky.
at cow-spanker (n.) under cow, n.1
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 135: There was plenty of work for the ‘Dallys’.
at Dally, n.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 126: No, that’s fair dinkum – without a word of a lie.
at fair dinkum, adj.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 137: By the yellow truck stood ‘the Scandy joker’, waving his dooks about.
at dook, n.1
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 187: He continued to extol to me the virtues of ‘juniper juice’.
at juniper (juice), n.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 97: You can knock out a fiver a week.
at knock out, v.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 128: A vehicle suspected of carrying an engineer or ‘pannikin boss’ [...] quickly brought speedometers rolling back towards the ‘thirties’.
at pannikin boss (n.) under pannikin, n.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 62: ‘Not on your plurry life I wouldn’t,’ said Hone fervently.
at plurry, adj.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 120: If anything breaks grab our standby truck and keep hauling. Its rip, tip or bust at this game [hauling road metal] and no please or thank you.
at rip, shit or bust under rip, v.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 137: By the yellow truck stood ‘the Scandy joker’, waving his dooks about.
at Scandy, n.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 64: Riki would ‘take to his scrapers’ when the moment arrived.
at take to one’s scrapers (v.) under scraper, n.
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 66: Hare and his cobbers had eaten [...] some sago or shanghai-ballast, preserved fruit, bread, butter and jam.
at Shanghai ballast (n.) under shanghai, n.1
[UK] T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 149: He had known most of the famous bushman [...] and also many instances of their riotous inclinations when ‘on the shicker’.
at on the shicker (adj.) under shicker, n.
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