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Teleg. (Brisbane) 10 Oct. 3/1: It was a little bit rough on the boys belonging to the band, because [...] they are respectable lads and play very well.at a bit rough (adj.) under rough, adj.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 10 Oct. 3/1: It was a little bit rough on the boys belonging to the band, because [...] they are respectable lads and play very well. Teleg. (Brisbane) 23 July 2/4: He only get small fellow bulla-ma-cow, and small fellow bread.at bullamacow, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 2/2: [H]is gin-drinking, whisky-soaked, beer-guzzling mob of discontents.at beer-guzzler (n.) under beer, n.
public notice cited in Teleg. (Brisbane) 28 Aug. 2/7: ‘Fire-bugs, take warning! The gallows are ready and hanging ready to begin. Suspicious characters had better give Elko a wide berth’ .at fire-bug (n.) under fire, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 23 Apr. 2/2: Going A Docker [...] a third of the men’s earnings is spent in drink, and their capacity for the consumption of schnapps is described as something remarkable.at docker, n.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 16 July 4/2: True, they might in the event of loss have to pay a higher rate, but for this the higher rents might compensate; and if the system succeeded they would doubly profit, for they would share in the reduction of rates [...] In either event they ‘stand on satin’.at stand on satin (v.) under satin, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 30 Sept. 3/8: When questioned about Gill, the accused said, ‘I smoked the other man away to Sydney in the train to-day’.at smoke, v.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 30 Sept. 3/8: Acting-sergeant Farrell then came up, and to him the accused admitted having got the money, and added, ‘It was dead sweet. Let me go, and you can have your palms greased’ .at sweet, adj.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 16 July 8/2: So the English, I think you all will agree, / Is the dodrottest language you ever did see.at dod-rotted (adj.) under dod, n.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 12 Oct. 11/2: The City Council might get on their tails, and say, ‘We will he as independent as the association’.at get on one’s tail (v.) under tail, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 8 Aug. 18/3: As the Athenaeum was known as Bishopgate, so the United Service, with which it exchanges courtesies, was, from the former ages of its members, honoured with the name of vice with that of Billingsgate. The Army and Navy is the Rag, and the East India United Service, the Barnshoot.at Barnshoot, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 18 June 6/4: Johnny’s mother is able to prevent hiin from larrikinising in the street at night.at larrikinise (v.) under larrikin, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 25 May 8/5: [The] ‘Australian grip’ [...] stands for the best of greetings, the honest, hearty handshake.at Australian grip (n.) under Australian, adj.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 24 Sept. 15/1: ‘He is what Is called a “booze-king”,’ said Senior-Sergeant Donnelly [...] he was a habitual drunkard, and did very llttle work.at booze king (n.) under booze, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 8 Sept. 10/3: Mr Pain’s four made a proper job of Bale’s team, winning by 30 up.at make a job (v.) under job, n.2
Teleg. (Brisbane) 16 Jan. 12/4: After the customary round of the agents, he [i.e. ‘the old tragedian’] would hie him to the Bodega to chat with his fellow blue-chins and hear what news on the theatrical Rialto. By the way, actors seem largely to have lost their characteristic blue chin. Whatever can be the reason? Do they shave closer nowadays?at blue-chin, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 21 Feb. 6/2: This is the first time that any of the local fishing enthusiasts have heard of a ‘scaly’ being caught on the line, but it is well known that Victoria Creek and other watercourses around are full of the monsters.at scaly, n.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 26 Mar. 7/4: ‘It’s a beastly swizz,’ observed Mr. Smith, ‘that the masters should have it all their own way and should be allowed to hold up to public ridicule the mistakes of our members’ .at swiz, n.2
Teleg. (Brisbane) 16 Oct. 16/2: A trip to One Tree Hill was a special delight, and when requested to write the visitors’ book an opinion of the glorious panoramic view, the verdict was: ‘Boskerino absolute’.at boskerino, adj.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 7 Jan. 14/3: Owing to the extensive operations of bookmakers who bet ‘under the lap’ and thereby do not contribute a penny towards the upkeep of racing [etc].at under the lap (adv.) under lap, n.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 11 Nov. 14/4: Yet so thoroughly are black cats venerated by the bat-headed British public [etc].at batbrain (n.) under bat, n.2
Teleg. (Brisbane) 14 Aug. 9/1: With the exception of one untoward incident, when a small party of half-a-dozen Blueshirts were attacked and maltreated by a crowd, the day passed in practically complete calm in Dublin.at blueshirt (n.) under blue, adj.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 1 Apr. 6/1: ‘Doing a knock’ with girls, by which expression is meant the insipid courting that is the prelude to calf love.at do a knock with (v.) under knock, n.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 22 Feb. 3/4: He was a left-hander too, and there Is something fascinating about a ‘molly dook’ trundler.at molly-dooker (n.) under molly, n.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 2 Oct. 8/5: He [...] has coined a word to describe what he considers the chief characteristic of Australians, ‘cobbership’.at cobbership (n.) under cobber, n.2
Teleg. (Brisbane) 19 Nov. 8/4: Both were outstanding ‘molly dook’ punchers who surmounted the difficulties with which such boxers must contend.at molly-dooker (n.) under molly, n.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 15 Dec. 2/3: This practice of obtaining money from visitors on the pretext of purchasing sly grog for them is very prevalent. It is commonly known as ‘dropping the bucket’.at drop the bucket (v.) under drop, v.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 4 Oct. 8/2: A more rational approach to drinking with the elimination of the ‘six o'clock swill,’ through stagger hours, was advocated today by the United Licensed Victuallers' Association president.at six o’clock swill (n.) under six, adj.
Teleg. (Brisbane) 17 June 6/3: The Englishmen already were showing an inclination to ‘bung it on’.at bung (it) on (v.) under bung, v.1
Teleg. (Brisbane) 5 July 8: Dong, poke (punch) [OED].at dong, n.2
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