1869 W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 32: She must be ‘a shingle short,’ what did she mean?at shingle short, a, adj.
1869 W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 35: The others are drunk as owls.at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
1869 W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 247: Florence was much amused the other evening by her enquiring if she (Floy) was going down to the water to have a ‘bogey’. Flory was much puzzled till she found out that a ‘bogey’, in colonial phraseology, meant a bath.at bogey, n.2
1869 W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 93: The escort has been ‘stuck up,’ and the robbers have taken notes to the value of £700.at stick up, v.1