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S. Aus. Register 13 Sept. 2/2: If we are to brew our own beer, we must do it well. The poorest will not drink hogwash [...] and we must endeavour to remove the prejudice against Colonial beer.at hogwash, n.
S. Aus. Register 13 Sept. 2/2: If we are to brew our own beer, we must do it well. The poorest will not drink hogwash [...] and we must endeavour to remove the prejudice against Colonial beer. Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 1 July 3/5: [W]hen unfortunately he passed a low gaming-house, termed in slang parlance a ‘silver hell,’ and the infernal spirit for play returning, the impulse was irresistible.at silver hell (n.) under silver, adj.
Sth Aus. Register 13 May 3/1: He was [...] threatening to ‘stick’ them both.at stick, v.
Sth Aus. Register 16 Dec. 2/1: [I]n giving you good advice, I expose myself to the land-sharks here whose open jaws will soon swallow you up, unless you keep a sharp look out [...] We are nearly all flat-catchers here.at flat-catcher, n.1
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 11 Nov./ 3/2: [T]he hardest and most disheartening of occupations, ‘working for a dead horse’ .at dead horse, n.1
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 19 Sept. 2/5: ‘The most jury-packing, road-jobbing, paper-reading, buckeen-breeding, sea-bathing, car driving, cockle-eating, cup-tossing, tea-and-whisky drinking, ribbon-lodging, orange-lodging, fighting, shouting, landlord-hooting, pig-jobbingest, potato-lovingest, good-for-nothingest nation on the face of the universal globe’.at cup-tosser (n.) under cup, n.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 30 May 4/5: And so ends this odd love-tale, which, if genuine [...] beats the inventions of our most popular novelists all to smash.at all to smash (adv.) under smash, n.1
S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 20 Oct. 3/4: Thomas Adams, a Tiersman, charged with being drunk in Rundle-srreet, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s.at tiersman, n.
S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 11 Apr. 3/5: James Richards, alias Jemmy the Scrumper, labourer, was charged with committing a rape on Lydia Sarah Robinson.at scrump, v.1
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 30 Aug. 3/3: [A] person offered him £28 for his horse; not thinking the offer a serious one, as the horse was worth £110, he merely said ‘all serene,’ and took no further notice.at all serene, adj.
S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 12 Apr. 3/5: A young woman living with a Tiersman in the
Mount Lofty Range, named Holland, had died suddenly
on the previous evening under suspicious circumstances.at tiersman, n.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 2 Aug. 2/7: Abercrombie and Biccard, the Esculapius and Galen of the house, accustomed to being ‘kept up’ to the most ungodly hours, were satisfied with a wink.at ungodly, adj.
(ref. to 1821) S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 23 Oct. 3/1: A wife by letters [records] the husband finding himself unable in 1821 to disunite himself from ‘that bitch of a woman that torments me’.at bitch, n.1
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 17 Dec. 3/2: Mr. Brown, M.P., from whom in the Notes and Queries of next century it will be explained that the slang phrase ‘done brown’ was derived.at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 6 June 3/6: The hon. member appeared so completely to agree in the cosmopolitan views of the hon. the Commissioner of Crown lands that if the latter gentleman should absquatulate he might, perhaps, very worthily fill his place.at absquatulate, v.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 21 Sept. 3/5: Legal Definition of a Blackleg [...] The Lord Chief Baron [...] said that ‘the word “blackleg”
has been used long enough in writing and speaking’.at blackleg, n.1
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 20 Sept. 3/8: [from Punch, London] He is then just the cheddar, the cut, cheese, or style, / Though his head bears a bollinger, beaver, or tile.at bollinger, n.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 20 Sept. 3/8: [from Punch, London] His father’s no father, but out of a joke, / He’s the guv’nor, old buffer, old cock, or old bloke.at buffer, n.3
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 20 Sept. 3/8: [from Punch, London] And he ne’er dresses well, though he goes the whole hog; / He is then just the cheddar, the cut, cheese, or style,.at cheddar, the, n.
Sth Aus. Register 4 Oct. 3/8: ‘What is a bunch of sprouts?’ Should this unhappy citizen [...] ever read these pages [...] he will learn that a ‘bunch of sprouts’ is a slang expression for the whole discharge of a revolver— barrel after barrel.at bunch of sprouts (n.) under sprout, n.2
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 6 Dec. 3/6: He asked to remain for the night. Nolan, the landlord, enquired whether he had any ‘hoot,’ a slang name for money.at hoot, n.1
S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 21 Feb. 3/8: [as 1859] .at Sawneydom (n.) under Sawney, n.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 21 Feb.2/7: He also said there were ‘bulldogs’ (a slang term for pistols) at the other end of the ship.at bulldog, n.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 9 Mar. 3/5: All the farmers with whom I conversed in [...] Kapunda (to use a little colonial slang) had a great ‘down’ on the railway.at down, n.2
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 11 Feb. 3/3: The assistant in either branch [...] gets or gives ' the sack' — such being the slang terms used for giving up or being discharged from a situation, at any moment, without reason asked or given.at get the sack (v.) under sack, n.
S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 8 May 3/7: At Doncaster, with a steadier of 9 st. 3 lbs., he was beaten a neck by Sneeze for a Handicap Plate.at steadier, n.
Sth. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 22 Aug. 3/3: I guarantee it will pay better than mining, cockatooing, or any other investment.at cockatoo, v.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide, SA) 29 Nov. 2/6: [S]he behaved more like an intoxicated fishfag than like a lady who bad moved in good society. She ‘chaffed’ the counsel, used the most coarse and vulgar slang.at fishfag (n.) under fish, n.1
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 3 Aug. 3/7: The Bounceboys give one of their ‘stuck-up’ dinner-parties, and are horror-stricken at the entrance of Little Spadger in the costume of ‘gent of the period.’ / Spadger. – ‘Didn’t like to disappoint, old fellow, but I promised to go to Flampoynte’s fancy ball, so thought I might as well keep both engagements.’.at spadger, n.
Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 30 Jan. 3/1: For him too much yabber gammon.at yabber, n.
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