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[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 13 Jan. 15/6: Note by Sambo [...] Plenty gins sit down alonger river. Budgery black gin!
at budgery, adj.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 13 Jan. 15/6: Note by Sambo [...] Budgery Cook [...] he been gib dis black-fellar plenty patter, plenty grog.
at grog, n.1
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 13 Jan. 15/6: Note by Sambo [...] When dat fellar patter bait belongin’ to Sambo, Sambo been waddie dat fellar. Murry coolie Sambo.
at waddy, v.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 13 Jan. 15/6: Note by Sambo [...] Cap’en no like it work; he been plenty sleep; plenty yabber yabber. Sat fellar like one cockatoo.
at yabber, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 6 July 3/1: Brisbane Letter. According to request, I purpose from time to time to furnish you with a few passing notes anent matters in general in ‘Banana land,’ which may interest your readers.
at Bananaland (n.) under banana, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 18 Jan. 4/6: It is grand ‘form’, however, to call [...] a a cravat a ‘choker’.
at choker, n.1
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 18 Jan. 4/6: It is grand ‘form’ [...] to call [...] a father a ’relieving officer’.
at relieving officer, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 18 Jan. 4/6: It is grand ‘form’, however, to call [...] a mother or wife an ‘old woman’.
at old woman, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 18 Jan. 4/6: It is grand ‘form’, however, to call [...] £25 a ‘pony’.
at pony, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 18 Jan. 4/6: Ta awfully ta.
at ta!, excl.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 3/3: On the training track the son of Warlike is a great swallow catcher,.
at swallow-catcher, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 18 Sept. 4/6: Euchre, which was a short time ago only looked upon as a blackfellows game, and generally relegated to the vulgar, has bobbed up suddenly as quite the thing for nice people.
at blackfellow’s game, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 2 Nov. 4/5: Sydney Diary [...] A southerly buster has busted over the city and blown the streets quite clean.
at southerly buster, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 6 Oct. 6/1: Jack Carson, of ‘Swagland,’ trudged along the Great Northern road, without a hope, without a room, and without a smoke, in search of employment [...] Truly, this ‘'bird of passage’ realised to-day that the levities of youth may be pardonable, yet if not discontinued in time they form the strongest reproach to maturity and age.
at bird of passage (n.) under bird, n.1
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 7 Aug. 4/6: The moleskin democrat has ceased to be envious of the squatter in the far west.
at moleskin squatter, n.
[Aus] Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 23 Oct. 6/4: Suspicion rested upon a man named Clarke, an old Vandemonian ex-convict.
at vandemonianism, n.
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