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The Diggings and the Bush choose

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[Aus] W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 32: She must be ‘a shingle short,’ what did she mean?
at shingle short, a, adj.
[Aus] W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 35: The others are drunk as owls.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 34: Now then, darkies,’ cried Miss Coles.
at darkie, n.
[Aus] 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
[Aus] W.M. Howell Diggings and the Bush 32: Two snakes! well if that aint a stunner?
at stunner, n.
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