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[Aus] Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld) 28 Jan. 2/3: In proof of this, we may refer to the issue of sundry placards mysteriously referring to the Silver-tails and Dark Lantern mob, specimens of which it would appear are about to seek office .
at silvertail, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive society [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at baldhead, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at barebones, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at chisel, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at gander, n.2
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at maggot, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at mangy, adj.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy.
at muzzy, adj.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld) 3 Oct. 1/1: Our friend Borrow who is always lesa or more out at elbows, is deeply interested in a new work on ‘The Great Loan Land,’ and has serious thoughts of emigrating to so desirable a country.
at Loan Land, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld) 27 Dec. 2/3: The weather was very oppressive [...] In the afternoon a southerly buster came on.
at southerly buster, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 2 Oct. 2/6: He [...] gave the playful husband such a lunge in the frontispiece that he went down like a stone in the mill-pond.
at frontispiece, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 2 Oct. 2/6: Tierney got an axe [...] and struck the women with it so violently as to cut her nose, black both eyes, and ‘stretch’ her o the ground.
at stretch, v.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld) 29 June 2/5: The defendant said to witness [...] ‘You drunken bitch’.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 July 2/7: Many false prophets arose in those days [...] before the days of ‘Yarramen’ and ‘snuffle busters’.
at snuffle-buster (n.) under snuffle, n.
[Aus] Morn. Bull. (Rockhampton, Qld) 2/7: The words, ‘tip,’‘palm oil,’‘cherry merry,’ and ‘douceur,’ are synonymous.
at cherry-merry, n.
[Aus] Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld) 24 May 7/6: Aitken gets all mixed up with a low heel lady named Mary. She wants $5000. ‘The singin’ kid’ keeps Aitken from paying and [...] swinging for murder when the low-heel’s pal is shot.
at lowheel, n.
[Aus] Morn. Bull. (Rockhampton, Qld) 22 Apr. 3/7: His Honour: If that is the sort of man he is, he is a nice specimen to be asking for costs [...] He is not a clean potato .
at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.
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