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[Aus] West Gippsland Gaz. (Warragul, Vic.) 28 Feb. 6/3: On my left hand was an Irishman doing his fourth lagging for burglary.
at lagging, n.
[Aus] West Gippsland Gaz. (Warragul, Vic.) 28 Feb. 6/3: I’m not thinking of Christmas; yer see it’s a good time for screwing.
at screwing, n.
[Aus] West Gippsland Gaz. (Warragul, Vic.) 28 Feb. 6/3: The ‘star men’ are kept strictly apart from old offenders [...] they also occupy a separate hall.
at star, n.2
[Aus] W. Gippsland Gaz. (Vic.) 30 Jan. 3/4: He got called ‘The Duffer,’ in the first place because he was rather a duffer.
at duffer, n.2
[Aus] W. Gippsland Gaz. (Warragul, Vic.) 8 Nov. 4/4: What scientific chucklehead was allowed to name a line of mountains Opthalmia Range?
at chucklehead, n.
[Aus] W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/6: A cab is a flounder and dab: abbreviated, a flounder.
at flounder (and dab), n.
[Aus] W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/7: He got hit with a broken bottle in O’Figgin’s near-and-far.
at near and far, n.
[Aus] W. Gippsland Gaz. (Vic.) 14 Dec. 3/5: Before he has done answering questions as to why he should not be sent to the war, the ‘cold-footer’ will have a headache.
at cold footer (n.) under cold, adj.
[Aus] W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/6: A corner is a Jack Horner.
at Johnny Horner, n.
[Aus] W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/7: We was in a pretty tight Johnny Horner.
at Johnny Horner, n.
[Aus] W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/7: My cobber Bill fell down beside me with a hole in his lump of lead.
at lump of lead, n.
[Aus] W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/6: A bed is a rosy-red.
at rosy-red, n.
[Aus] West Gippsland Gaz. (Vic.) 21 Apr. 4/2: [headline] The Train Was Late But He Couldn’t ‘Roar Up’ Anybody.
at roar up (v.) under roar, v.
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