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Courier (Brisbane) 24 june 2/5: A very reprehensible practice has hitherto prevailed of allowing the privates to parade the town in what, in military slang, is denominated as ‘mufti’.at mufti, n.
Courier (Brisbane) 24 june 2/5: A very reprehensible practice has hitherto prevailed of allowing the privates to parade the town in what, in military slang, is denominated as ‘mufti’. Courier (Brisbane) 20 July 3/1: It is for us to demonstrate that the talk about tbe goldfields [...] is not, to use a bit of colonial slang — ‘all blow’.at blow, n.3
Courier (Brisbane) 18 Aug. 7/4: You no longer hear the sarcastic inquiry ‘how are your poor feet?’ but the prevalent slang, heard everywhere, is ‘How are your spasms,’ or ‘Have you got the cramp?’ .at how are your poor feet? under foot, n.
Brisbane Courier 7 July 2/6: ‘Don’t ride that horse! He is too fiery! Take Bugalugs - he’s quiet.’ ‘Sir,’ (said the jackaroo, who had just saddled the ‘interdicted steed,’ and did not like the trouble of letting him go and catching another.) ‘Sir, I can ride buck-jumpers. There’s no fear but I can sit him’ .at jackaroo, n.
Brisbane Courier 20 dec. 4/2: [A] dozen puppies dangle after her pretty but thoughtless daughter.at dangle, v.
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 5 Feb. 4/5: ‘Gone-goose’ is ruined, whether by involuntary means, or by a long wilful course of profligacy.at gone goose (n.) under gone, adj.1
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 5 Feb. 4/5: ‘To hook’ is to steal, and here again the gravity of the crime is glozed over by the fantastic synonym.at hook, v.1
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 30 Oct. 3/4: [K]nowing-looking men, with red faces and book in hand, whose imperative demand as to ‘what you fancy for the next event’ is only equalled by their audaciously offering to give or take any odds on anything; or, on refusing these overtures, to be abused in the most fashionable slang by a moiety of the legs.at leg, n.
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Englishwoman’s Mag. q. in Brisbane Courier 1 Aug. 4/3: And perhaps I’d have cut it sooner, ere i came here all skin and grief.at skin-and-grief (n.) under skin, n.1
Brisbane Courier 10 July 3/5: Such terms as ‘milking,’ ‘roping,’ ‘dead ’uns,’ &c., are highly suggestive, and it is quite probable each may be applicable to one or more horses amongst the sixty-five nominated for the Cup.at dead one, n.
Brisbane Courier 10 July 3/5: Such terms as ‘milking,’ ‘roping,’ ‘dead ’uns,’ &c., are highly suggestive, and it is quite probable each may be applicable to one or more horses amongst the sixty-five nominated for the Cup.at milk, v.
Brisbane Courier 6 Novc. 3/3: If not I mean to ‘roll up swag,’ / And swagger to the Cape.at swagger, n.
Brisbane Courier 22 Nov. 3/6: [These are] two essentials that, had they been earlier attended to, might have left the Never Never country in a far healthirt condition, commercially speaking, than it at present is.at never-never, the, n.1
Brisbane Courier 26 Mar. 3/1: He was mild as honey. Not that she’s a bad lot at bottom, mind you.at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 2 Dec. 2/7: My old friend Bibulous says I utterly ruined his little game with the ‘Tommy Dodd’ shillings by ‘blowing’ on it in theway l did.at tommy dodd, adj.
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 2 Dec. 2/7: Now, if everybody would make a practice of only giving ‘Tommy Dodds’ at these [church] collections, [...] [t]he worn and doefaced silver coinage would soon be withdrawn from circulation.at tommy dodd, n.1
Brisbane Courier 2 Dec. 7/2: Now, the question is, whether this bushwhacker had a right, according to the agreement, to place the money in the bank to my credit, or to spend it on his own account?at bushwhacker, n.1
Brave Boy’s Battle in Brisbane Courier (Qld) 11 Nov. 2/6: ‘Better put out the youngster’s light, hadn’t I?’ queried the other [...] ‘When I speak the word, you douse his glim’ .at douse someone’s glim (v.) under glim, n.
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 11 Mar. 3/6: ‘Yes, but Lottie,’ said Julia, ‘[...] the mosquitoes, oh! dear me, I was tormented.’ Sam Brown smiled as he asked if they were Scotch greys? ‘Scotch greys, Mr. Brown? I am sure I do not know what their color was’.at Scotch greys (n.) under Scotch, adj.
Brisbane Courier 5 Feb. 3/3: If he passes the Rubicon safely, and makes a fair profit on his crop, we all mean to gird up our loins, and rush head first, head and tail, boots and all, into sugar.at boots (and all) (adv.) under boot, n.2
Brisbane Courier 1 Dec. 5: The Afghan Sirdars [...] must be asking themselves whether it will profit them most to side with the Ruski.at Russki, n.
Brisbane Courier 30 Aug. 6/2: John Chinaman has once more outwitted the Fanqui in the matter of petty gambling.at John Chinaman, n.
Brisbane Courier 30 Aug. 6/2: John Chinaman has once more outwitted the Fanqui in the matter of petty gambling. In spite of special Acts and adverse decisions [...] John perseveres in indulging in the delights of fan-tan and pak-a-pu.at fanqui, n.
Brisbane Courier 30 Aug. 6/2: John Chinaman has once more outwitted the Fanqui in the matter of petty gambling. In spite of special Acts [...] John perseveres in indulging in the delights of fan-tan and pak-a-pu.at John, n.
Brisbane Courier 2 Dec.5/7: In the bush he [a Kanaka] is prone to sickness [...] This gives the ‘jackaroos’ an opportunity of trying their hands as ‘quack,’ and, whatever the result may be, it is always beneficial, at least to the squatter.at quack, n.1
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 1 May 3/2: [R]eturning home to find you have got the Barcoo vomit for a week, and the sandy blight for a month! at Barcoo, n.
Brisbane Courier (Qls) 19 Dec. n.p.: Those classical maladies called the Barcoo rot and the Bellyando spew.at Barcoo rot (n.) under Barcoo, n.
Brisbane Courier (Qld) 19 Dec. 2/3: Those classical maladies called the Barcoo rot and the Bellyando spew.at belyando spew, n.
Brisbane Courier 8 Apr. 3/6: To enter the Cambridge Music Hall [in Shoreditch, London] was to cross the border of another country. We found the Yeddishers in force, and a free flow of ooftish.at oof, n.
Brisbane Courier 13 Aug. 3/2: Now come the horses [...] He is followed by the three-cornered beggar.at three-cornered (adj.) under three, adj.
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