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Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian choose

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[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 31 May 736/4: It’s a privilege to ‘grouse’ so please do not mind / What this grumbling old soldier has to say.
at grouse, v.1
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 31 May 736/6: You won’t get your hair off, Colonel, if I say it?
at get one’s hair off (v.) under hair, n.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/4: I chats the skirt for erbout ten minutes.
at chat, v.1
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 14 Oct. 4/5: Maria ’ops out on to the [tennis] court with another old chook. Maria takes first bang [...] and the other old chook misses it.
at chook, n.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/4: Maria gives me the knock-down to a shyin’ little shielah.
at knock-down, n.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/4: I hoist myself up on to me dutch pegs and offers my arm to the frills.
at Dutch pegs, n.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/4: I hoist myself up on to me dutch pegs and offers my arm to the frills.
at frill, n.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 14 Oct. 4/5: I object to that squawkin’ coot callin’ her names [...] it’s got ter stop, Get me, Steve?
at get me, Steve? under get, v.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/4: It came across that court and hit me pair in the pantry.
at pantry, n.
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/4: Maria gives me the knock-down to a shyin’ little shielah.
at sheila, n.1
[Aus] Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.) 4/5: The handle hit him fair on the napper. and he dropped just like as if ’e’d been pole-axed [...] Blime, it seems I stonkered him a bit too ’ard.
at stonker, v.
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