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[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 19: Say — isn’t she a bonzer!
at bonzer, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 251: I got a brain-wave!
at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 264: ‘Jumping nannygoats!’ he exclaimed.
at jumping cats!, excl.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 114: You lookin’ for a clinah named Austilline Thorpe?
at cliner, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 84: It will be all of a fortnight before we strike ‘The Corner’ of N.S.W.
at corner, the, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 20: High Balls, and Corpse Revivers look pretty, but I want a drink.
at corpse reviver (n.) under corpse, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 92: William J. went terrible crook when I shot a couple of ’em.
at crook, adj.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 251: It seems to me, my bonny old digger, that we’re about to enter the shoot first, shoot straight, and keep on shooting stage.
at digger, n.1
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 98: ‘Dope’s getting a bit stale,’ Hendry remarked, cutting a pipeful of tobacco.
at dope, n.1
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 122: Bullets ‘flunked’ into the straw-stuffed pack-saddles.
at flunk, v.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 264: ‘Goodo!’ replied Monty.
at good-o!, excl.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 102: Certainly we are now well into the Never-Never country.
at never-never, the, n.1
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 34: Steady, old lad! Here come the Nosey Parkers.
at old lad (n.) under old, adj.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 200: Now, now! Don’t get into a paddy.
at paddy, n.3
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 263: You just drop your little pop-gun tood sweet, or I’ll drop you.
at popgun, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 120: He’s gone back to his old possie [...] Or there may be two of them.
at possie, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 121: We’ll be in Queer Street all the same if he punctures our water-drums.
at in Queer Street under Queer Street, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 121: The good old days when ‘men was men, and byes was byes, me pimply-faced young shaver—h’rumph!’.
at shaver, n.1
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 261: Here, Fly! Sick ’em, old girl! Sool ’em!
at sool, v.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 92: Well, you have your squirt handy.
at squirt, n.
[Aus] A.W. Upfield House of Cain 122: Wing him, Monty! Only wing him!
at wing, v.
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