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The Road to Gundagai choose

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[Aus] G. McInnes Road to Gundagai 48: Terence was the youngest child [...]. (‘I’m a little afterthought.’).
at afterthought, n.
[Aus] G. McInnes Road to Gundagai 35: All about us they [i.e. passengers] were vomiting into ‘strawberry boxes’ [OED].
at strawberry box, n.
[Aus] G. McInnes Road to Gundagai 265: Thereafter he said he’d rather play football with the other fellows: reading aloud was a bit ‘queeny’.
at queeny, adj.
[Aus] G. McInnes Road to Gundagai 113: His humble but essential job was to clean up the droppings from the big drays and waggons that rumble to and from the docks. He and his kind were known, with apposite Australian wit, as ‘sparrer starvers’.
at sparrow-starver (n.) under sparrow, n.
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