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Ghosts of the Big Country 59: The grog’s got ’em now [...] When we held our annual race meetings years ago the blacks were as happy as Larry.at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
Ghosts of the Big Country 59: The grog’s got ’em now [...] When we held our annual race meetings years ago the blacks were as happy as Larry. Ghosts of the Big Country 52: ‘I don’t drink much,’ he told me, ‘but when I do tackle the stuff, I drink it! I’m not a beer-chewer.’.at beer-chewer (n.) under beer, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 11: The petrol bowser wasn’t damaged.at bowser, n.3
Ghosts of the Big Country 204: I had many a fight with those bullocky blokes.at bullocky, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 177: And the dead went ‘Poof’ and we all went bush / Down by the Daly River-O!at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 4: His beverages were rum and ‘bush champagne’, [...] which consisted of a pannikin of methylated spirits mixed with riverwater and a spoonful of sal volatile.at bush champagne (n.) under bush, adj.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 177: I saw a buffalo and a fat Chinee.at Chinee, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 32: Those who transgressed were denigrated as ‘combos’ and ‘gin jockeys’.at combo, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 221: Blackfellows belted tapsticks / And danced the corroboree for us; / And all the bush things took to heel / At the rattatan and din, / As we wingdinged on the Mary.at wing-ding, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 221: Blackfellows belted tapsticks / And danced the corroboree for us; / And all the bush things took to heel / At the rattatan and din, / As we wingdinged on the Mary.at wing-dinger, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 166: An English gentleman down on his luck, whose liking for ‘a drop of the doings’ had brought him before the Stipendiary Magistrate.at doings, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 31: He still ‘sits down’ in ‘The Loo’ for several months each year in a galvanised iron house.at sit down, v.
Ghosts of the Big Country 208: Bulwaddy was renowned as a ‘gin shepherd’, which meant he reserved the camp girls for himself.at gin-shepherd (n.) under gin, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 32: Those who transgressed were denigrated as ‘combos’ and ‘gin jockeys’.at gin-jockey (n.) under gin, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 151: Their generosity in ‘grub-staking’ bushmen and prospectors who were down on their luck earned them an El Dorado of credit and affection.at grubstake, v.
Ghosts of the Big Country 165: [of a dog] Years of happy beer-guzzling had turned him into a monster weighing more than four stone, with a gut like a five-gallon keg.at gut, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 59: I suppose I’ll get howled down for saying it.at howl, v.
Ghosts of the Big Country 129: It was here Small Jacky and a couple of other Maillis had seen four crocs.at jacky jacky, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 133: But by Jesus, mate, wasn’t it good while it lasted!at Jesus!, excl.
Ghosts of the Big Country 16: The younger Yanyula men in wide cowboy hats and ‘laughing-sides’.at laughing-side(d) boot (n.) under laughing, adj.
Ghosts of the Big Country 31: Old Man Sneddon has been commuting [...] between the dry season in Coober Peady, where he is an opal buyer [...] and the Wet in Borroloola. He still ‘sits down’ in ‘The Loo’ for several months each year in a galvanised iron house.at Loo, the, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country xi: Where I had had my first tuck-out on rum and stolen beef.at tuck-out, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country 177: There was Wallaby George and Charlie Dargie, / Old Skinny Davis and Jimmy Pan Quee, / Big-mouthed Charlie and old Paree, / The Tipperaray Pong and Jim Wilkie [...] Three whites, two Chows, four bucks and a gin.at pong, n.2
Ghosts of the Big Country xiii: There was the ‘Shicker Vicar’, at one time an Anglican parson [...] who, when he opened his fridge at the rectory would disclose [...] ranks of bottles.at shicker, adj.
Ghosts of the Big Country 163: Few visitors went anywhere without their ‘calling-card,’ usually consisting of one or more ‘Darwin Stubbies’.at stubbie, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 143: A ‘long grass job’ referred to the practice of those inhabitants who during the Wet—also known as the Suicide Season—would sometimes creep off into the cane-grass and there slit their throats.at suicide season (n.) under suicide, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 112: And the time had come, the shearer knew, / To hump the swag outback.at hump one’s swag (v.) under swag, n.1
Ghosts of the Big Country xi: All the tatterdemalion folk heroes of a frontier which seemed very close to us.at tatterdemallion, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 79: He would make a ‘thunder-box’ out of a forty-four-gallon drum.at thunderbox (n.) under thunder, n.
Ghosts of the Big Country 177: Then we cranked up the Lizzie and shouted ‘Righto! / All aboard for the Daly River-O.’.at tin lizzie (n.) under tin, adj.
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