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‘Wheat’ in Backblock Ballads 24: You’re [...] deservin’ of a velvet cushion seat / In the cocky-farmers’ heaven when you come to throw a seven.at chuck a seven, v.
‘Wheat’ in Backblock Ballads 24: You’re [...] deservin’ of a velvet cushion seat / In the cocky-farmers’ heaven when you come to throw a seven. ‘Cow’ in Backblock Ballads 36: Once I wus a sinful spender. Used ter go a roarin’ bender.at bender, n.2
‘A Guide for Poits’ Backblock Ballads 38: A bloke is ’ardly orf the bottle there / Before ’e’s in the jug – a bird fer sure.at bird, n.1
‘Cow’ in Backblock Ballads 39: Why, the blazin’, wasteful crim’nal goes an’ kills a poddy calf!at blazing, adj.
‘An Old Master’ in Backblock Ballads 19: Nothin’ left us but unyoke ’em and sling off the blessed load.at blessed, adj.
‘A Guide for Poits’ in Backblock Ballads 38: Lor’ blim’me! I ain’t married to me Muse!at lor blime!, excl.
‘Sore Throat’ in Backblock Ballads 59: Who fades and wilts an’ calls for nurse, / To hear a blithered soldier’s curse.at blithered, adj.
‘The Australaise’ Backblock Ballads 110: Learn the — art of / Self de- — -fence.at bloody, adv.
‘Cow’ in Backblock Ballads 35: Blow yer beauty! Wot’s the matter with the maiden ’oo kin milk?at blow!, excl.1
‘Langwidge’ in Backblock Ballads 16: ‘If they ain’t blanky swine,’ ’e ses, ‘I’m blowed!’ the flamin cows!at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
‘An Old Master’ in Backblock Ballads 20: ‘Now,’ he yelled, ‘don’t keep me waitin’! / Pass that whip, you blarsted blue-tongue!’.at blue-tongue (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘The Silent Member’ in Backblock Ballads 76: When all at once he ups and shouts, ‘Here, give a bloke a breeze! / Just take a pull for half a tick and let me have the floor.’.at breeze, n.1
‘An Old Master’ in Backblock Ballads 20: William was, I pause to mention, livin’ on an old-age pension / Since he gave up bullock-punchin’ at the age of eighty three.at bullock-puncher (n.) under bullock, n.
‘The Homeward Track’ in Backblock Ballads 33: What’s a bullocky to live for? Days of toil are hard and long.at bullocky, n.
‘Cow’ in Backblock Ballads 37: An’ the many ways I’ve busted money, when I should er trusted / It ter cattle an’ erconomy.at bust, v.1
‘Sore Throat’ in Backblock Ballads n.p.: The pale young man he comes to me, / An’ chats me good an’ fair; / ‘That langwidge that you use,’ sez he, / ‘Pollutes the good clean air.’.at chat, v.1
‘A Guide for Poits’ in Backblock Ballads 37: I’d love to listen to each choonful lay / Uv soulful coots who scorn to write fer gain.at coot, n.1
‘The Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 103: Now, Lena was a dashin’ piece, / ’Igh-spirited an’ flash. / ’Twas plain enough to me that day / That ’Arry’d done ’is dash.at do one’s dash (v.) under dash, n.4
‘A Guide for Poits’ in Backblock Ballads 39: It’s easy fer to pen a sweet refrain / Wiv this ’ere jist a dead-’ead sort o’ line.at deadhead, adj.
‘The Homeward Track’ in Backblock Ballads 33: When we’ve done our little cheque in, and the township’s at our back.at do in, v.
‘Doch-An-Doris’ in Backblock Ballads 18: But rain or shine have one more drain! / The last — the Doch-an-doris!at drain, n.1
‘Hopeful Hawkins’ Backblock Ballads 30: The confounded mine’s a duffer; for that simple-minded buffer / He had salted it.at duffer, n.2
‘The Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 103: I swear they lies like ’ell who ses / That we was on our ear! / For, or we was both, I take me oath, / As sober as me here.at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
‘The Boon of Discontent’ in Backblock Ballads 37: I’m full up of the whole damn business!at full up, adj.1
‘Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 103: They ses we painted Fernville red; / They ses that we were gay.at gay, adj.
‘An Old Master’ in Backblock Ballads 19: We were in a glue-pot, certain — red and stiff and most tenacious.at gluepot, n.1
‘Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 102: ‘I know two bonzer girls,’ ’e ses; ‘Fair ’otties, both, they are.’.at hottie, n.2
‘The Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 102: An’ Lena Crump who jerks the pump / Down at the Southern Star.at jerk, v.2
‘The Cultured Constable’ Backblock Ballads 93: ‘Nay, gentle John,’ said I, ‘attend. / A thief my goods and gold / Seeks to purloin. Go, seize the man.’.at john, n.1
‘The Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 102: There’s Rose who serves behind the joint / In Mudge’s privit bar.at joint, n.
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