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[Aus] Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advocate 21 July 2/2: The prisoners’ outside ‘cobbers’ then tied the tobacco to the lines, which were hauled in.
at cobber, n.2
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 17 June 3/3: This has ‘narked’ the writers sore.
at nark, v.1
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 17 June 3/3: When a local ‘skit’ appears, / And flattens someone fair, / The public, in its wisdom, blames / That beastly pair.
at skit, n.1
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 17 June 3/3: When a resident ‘got slops,’ / The ‘Trinity’ he’d blame.
at get slops (v.) under slop, n.1
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 17 June 3/3: But terror wasn’t half so bad, / When ‘whacked’ amongst the three.
at whack, v.2
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 2 Jan. 2/7: These rascals (among whom are a notorious ‘bludger’ and a 15th rate pug [...]) nightly waylay men whom they judge to be possessed of a few pounds.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 30 Jan. 3/4: The ‘casual buster’ [...] is a clumsy bungler, and the odds are that he will be caught.
at buster, n.1
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 30 Jan. 3/4: Our burglar has selected his ‘chat’.
at chat, n.2
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 30 Jan. 3/4: There are two distinct types of burglar. One is the skilled and practised ‘cracksman’ or ‘screwsman’.
at screwsman (n.) under screw, n.1
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 30 Jan. 3/4: Our burglar [...] uses his ‘twirls’ or skeleton keys.
at twirl, n.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 2 Nov. 3/1: Mr. Bullock has some bonster bronzewing turkeys.
at bonster, adj.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 11 24 May 2/4: First it threat[e]ned, then it blew, which filled our hearts with pain, / There only came a Bogan shower with thirteen drops of rain.
at Bogan shower, n.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 4 Dec. 6/3: The trio toed the mark in the hall of justice, the former finding it necessary to plank up five quidlets.
at plank down (v.) under plank, v.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 4 Dec. 6/3: The trio toed the mark in the hall of justice, the former finding it necessary to plank up five quidlets.
at quidlet, n.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 4 Dec. 6/3: The inciter also had to spark up a couple of quid.
at spark up, v.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 15 June 3/3: ‘The only alternative,’ says Mr Blacket, ‘will be underground mutton [...] and many who have despised bunny as food will be compelled to take to it.
at underground mutton, n.
[Aus] letter 7 July from France in Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 1 Oct. 2/7: We are getting a rough trot — all stoush.
at trot, n.2
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 6 May 4/4: Like most Chinese converts he was probably [...] a ‘rice Christian,’ i.eatere. one who gets converted for what he can secure in the way of rice and other comforts.
at rice Christian (n.) under rice, n.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 25 June 4/1: Like Barney’s Bull. W. P. Pettiford notified that his bicycle required new tyres and tubes, also a new rear wheel sprocket.
at like barney’s bull under barney’s bull, n.
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 4 May 1/6: [headline] On The Drift / Uncle Sam in Queer Street.
at on the drift under drift, v.1
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 22 Aug. 1/2: Persons engaged in selling petrol from bowsers were entitled only to a weekly wage of £3.
at bowser, n.3
[Aus] Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 6 Mar. 1/1: If the present brew is equal in its strength to past experiments, it can well adopt as a slogan — ‘a one-pot screamer’.
at two-pot screamer (n.) under screamer, n.
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