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The Solid Mandala choose

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[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 146: Waldo had to have a quiet laugh. As if he were the one a shingle short!
at shingle short, a, adj.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 280: Arthur continued to blub a little to show his brother he needed him.
at blub, v.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 147: Seen ’er making through the scrub with that bluey nut Arthur Brown.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 233: ‘I never cared for brass,’ she said, ‘in particular from subordinate young men.’.
at brass, n.1
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 172: Poor Crankshaw, he was almost obliterated by brisket and a jutting forehead.
at brisket, n.1
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 227: A brum two-bob.
at brum, adj.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 124: You’re the coldest fish I’ll ever hope to meet.
at cold fish (n.) under cold, adj.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 32: Arthur’s the fair one, the copper-knob.
at copper nob (n.) under copper, adj.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 95: He’s only that ginger dill who serves you with the sugar down at Allwrights!
at dill, n.1
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 296: A few steps across the yard to the dumpty.
at dumpty, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 156: With the fag-end of her intelligence Dulcie could have sensed this.
at fag end, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 18: You ought to move in with that pair of poofteroos across the road.
at -eroo, sfx
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 77: George Brown lashing out with his gammy leg.
at gammy, adj.2
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 84: By ghost, isn’t it hot, eh?
at by ghost! (excl.) under ghost, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 147: ‘Go on!’ said the other, soaring to astonishment.
at go on!, excl.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 12: Both my hubby and me was country people.
at hubby, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 96: Aren’t you hungry? [...] I am! I’m looking forward to a good tuck-in.
at tuck-in, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 181: A big, porous, trembly lily, he was terrified for the fate of the dogs.
at lily, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 47: Yer don’t realize a big lump of a boy like that can turn violent.
at lump, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 268: They don’t like it. So you’ll have to lump it, Arthur.
at like it or lump it (v.) under lump, v.1
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 132: Dulcie’s p.-c. She sent me a card from some lake.
at p.c., n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 147: The little one nearly peed himself.
at pee (oneself) (v.) under pee, v.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 184: Come down by the water, brother [...] under oner those Moreton Bay ffiggs, and we’ll root together so good you’ll shoot out the other side of Christmas.
at root, v.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 194: She began to rouse on me, as if I was to blame.
at rouse, v.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 123: She’s a thin, dark, plain girl. She’ll never be up to much because of the salt-cellars.
at salt cellar (n.) under salt, n.3
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 147: Now don’t tell me Bill Poulter isn’t a sawney.
at sawney, n.1
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 87: There were big shivoos with celebrities from Sydney.
at shivoo, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 126: Some people have all the luck! Or spondulicks.
at spondulics, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 86: All told, Ma Musto wasn’t such a bad stick.
at stick, n.
[Aus] P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 90: Aren’t yer stoking up?
at stoke up, v.
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