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[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 20 Apr. 113: Real good beer chewers, I admit, they could drink anything from clay-pan water to Port Mackay rum.
at beer-chewer (n.) under beer, n.
[Aus] in Sydney Worker Feb. n.p.: Painted by him I am a narrow, bigoted, snuffle-busting son of a gun whose grog blossomed ‘conk’ gives the lie to his watery protestations.
at conk, n.1
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 9 Feb. 3/2: He had had but three weeks’ exprience of colonial life. In digging parlance he was a ‘joey’ [AND].
at joey, n.1
[Aus] in Sydney Worker Feb. n.p.: Painted by him I am a narrow, bigoted, snuffle-busting son of a gun whose grog blossomed ‘conk’ gives the lie to his watery protestations.
at snuffle-buster (n.) under snuffle, n.
[Aus] in Sydney Worker Feb. n.p.: Painted by him I am a narrow, bigoted, snuffle-busting son of a gun whose grog blossomed ‘conk’ gives the lie to his watery protestations.
at sonofagun, n.
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: The luxury of being alone with his sorrow was denied him, however, for anon neighbouring ‘batchers’ kept dropping in.
at bacher (n.) under bach (it), v.
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 5 Sept. 3/4: If the ‘knights of the blades’ and their comrades will resolve to sink all minor issues [...] Unionism must soon flourish and become all powerful throughout Australia.
at knight of the blade, n.
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) Aug. 3/3: Some very thinned-skinned individuals have been ‘rousing’ on me for what they term my ‘strong language’ [AND].
at rouse, v.
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 7 Aug. 3/3: Now, Mr Editor, I wish all our lads to be warned against those sheep cockeys who are going to cut down the price [AND].
at sheep-cocky (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 11 Sept. 1/1: His boss he gives some funny names, when he can’t hear the joke, He calls him ‘joint’ and ‘finger’, / and he sometimes calls him ‘bloke’.
at finger, n.
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 26 Feb. 7/2: As ‘Knights of the Blade’ we may not be as swift as Power or Mick the Ringer, but we are all there from start to finish.
at knight of the blade, n.
[Aus] Worker (Sydney) 20 Aug. 3/3: He had to cross a creek up Leperland way, which is infested with alligators.
at Leperland, n.
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