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Colonist (NZ) 23 Nov. 3/5: He presumed the literary dunghill which produced low persons, low minds, low tastes and low habits, had produced the hash of catsmeat to which the member for Richmond had alluded.at cat’s meat, n.
Colonist (NZ) 23 Nov. 3/5: He presumed the literary dunghill which produced low persons, low minds, low tastes and low habits, had produced the hash of catsmeat to which the member for Richmond had alluded. Colonist (Nelson, NZ) 15 Oct. 2/6: He should very soon begin to think that those who advanced him money were, in vulgar parlance ‘a shingle short’ .at shingle short, a, adj.
Colonist (Nelson, NZ) 25 Sept. 3/2: He also said he was ‘flyblown’. ‘Flyblown’ means ‘no money’.at fly-blown, adj.
Colonist (Nelson, NZ) 25 Sept. 3/2: He said he had no money to buy ‘tucker’. ‘Tucker’ means food.at tucker, n.
N.Z. Colonist 12 Dec. 2/5: The food of the sailor [...] ‘Fanny Adams’.at fanny adams, n.1
N.Z. Colonist 12 Dec. 2/5: ‘chippies’ are carpenters.at chippie, n.3
N.Z. Colonist 12 Dec. 2/5: The sailor-man is a ‘Matloe’ or ‘Flatfoot’.at flatfoot, n.
N.Z. Colonist 12 Dec. 2/5: The sailor-man is a ‘Matloe’ or ‘Flatfoot’.at matlow, n.
Colonist (NZ) 20 June 8/1: Even the great wool kings in Hawke’s Bay and squattocracy in general scarificed dignity and pride for the time being.at squattocracy, n.
Colonist (NZ) 123 Sept. 6: Competitions: Decorated barrow: Misses Woolcombe (2) and Morrison; toy barrow, Betty Humphries. Billy-cart : G. Hood.at billy-cart, n.
Colonist (NZ) 21 June 7/4: To ’beetle’ signifies to ‘quirk about’ in an aeroplane [...] ‘To beetle round in a rumpty’ [...] means to flop about in the air in a certain type of old-hasioned almost fool-proof machine, offcially known as a Maurice-Farman, but popularly alluded to as a rumpty .at beetle, v.
Colonist (NZ) 21 June 7/4: ‘To beetle round in a rumpty’ [...] means to flop about in the air in a certain type of old-fashioned almost fool-proof machine, offcially known as a Maurice-Farman, but popularly alluded to as a rumpty .at rumpty, adj.
Colonist (Nelson, NZ) 15 Oct. 4/3: ‘Jee wiz, what a lot of issues will go before the electors,’ sez Mumbles.at gee whiz!, excl.
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