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[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 24 Apr.3/1: This chicken in the art of love [etc].
at chicken, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Jan. 3/1: I had nearly concluded this letter, when an acquaintance came in posthaste to pay me a visit, and still harping on the same strong gave me to understand that all the four score [ph]onolgists [...] were then assembled.
at strong, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 20 Sept. 1/2: Nobody can doubt Miss Lydia's shrewdness after the specimen she has given of her twelve months proficiency in the Botany slang; knowing cove, the bush, &c.
at knowing, adj.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/1: Blister me, if this woudn’t be better to read than lots of stuff about the French and Spanish quarrels.
at blister, v.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/2: She’d find, in the long run, Bill no such bad chop neither.
at chop, n.3
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/2: That saucy minx, Fan Flirt, whose skits about the ‘dummies’ of the Colony be only sheer envy because she hasn’t the dumps.
at dummy, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/2: He likes to have a long yarn from the cove, who is sure to get a bit of tobacco if he tells Bill a good ’un.
at good ’un, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/1: It would do your heart good, Mister Editor, to see hoqw Bill tucks in.
at tuck in, v.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/1: But, props, she may be like Miss Flirt, and wouldn’t admire such a lover as Bill Kangaroo.
at kangaroo, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/1: But, props, she may be like Miss Flirt, and wouldn’t admire such a lover as Bill Kangaroo.
at Miss, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/2: Bill has plenty of stock, and will have a good farm, when father’s off.
at off, adv.5
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 30 Oct. 4/1: That latin-man Skivvola, a very cunning old shaver.
at shaver, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 23 Sept. 2/3: The French critics [...] talk of John Company’s devouring twenty kingdoms, and of merchants supporting dethroned princes and paying punctually the pensions of kings.
at John Company, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 Mar. 3/4: The bubble and squeak whimpering of his whining bantling.
at bantling, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 mar. 3/4: I will freely stake my old black benjamin against your satin breeches.
at benjamin, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. and NSW Advertiser 5 Dec. 3/4: The prisoner [...] said [...] ‘Now you b-g-r show us where your swag is’.
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 mar. 3/4: I must endeavour to dispose of my cag-mag in some other market.
at cagmag, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 mar. 3/1: Her cargo comprises 3500 lbs of negrohead tobacco.
at niggerhead, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 Mar. 2/2: If ever the Vandemonians increased in wisdom, it was during the last year.
at vandemonianism, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 mar. 2/2: We shall not fail to afford these [...] Vandemonian Cartwrights ample scope for amusement .
at vandemonianism, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 19 July 3/2: Having proceeded to a neighbouring public-house to regale herself with a strong potation of an elevating tendency, she retired to her ‘crib’ at the dead hour of midnight.
at crib, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 15 Aug. 3/1: ‘Please your Worship,’ said the complainant, ‘I was on duty last night, when this here man came up to me quite tossticated in liquor, kicked up a ‘bobbery’, [and] swore all kinds of ‘outdacious’ oaths’.
at bobbery, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Apr. 3/3: I have been preyed upon by sharks, sharpers, flash-men, fencers, rum coves, squatters, nippers, lifters, and all the tag-rag-and-bobtail denoted by the worst words in the Slang Dictionary.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Apr. 3/3: I have been preyed upon by sharks, sharpers, flash-men, fencers, rum coves, squatters, nippers, lifters, and all the tag-rag-and-bobtail denoted by the worst words in the Slang Dictionary.
at fencer, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Apr. 3/3: I have been preyed upon by sharks, sharpers, flash-men, fencers, rum coves, squatters, nippers, lifters, and all the tag-rag-and-bobtail denoted by the worst words in the Slang Dictionary.
at flashman, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 3 Jan. 2/6: I never, to my knowledge, said I would make Mr. Raine ‘fly like hell’.
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Apr. 3/3: I have been preyed upon by sharks, sharpers, flash-men, fencers, rum coves, squatters, nippers, lifters, and all the tag-rag-and-bobtail denoted by the worst words in the Slang Dictionary.
at lifter, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Apr. 3/3: I have been preyed upon by sharks, sharpers, flash-men, fencers, rum coves, squatters, nippers, lifters, and all the tag-rag-and-bobtail denoted by the worst words in the Slang Dictionary.
at nipper, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 15 Oct. 4/1: [T]he vulgar slang of pats and shillelaghs in song and fame which possess lrish wit.
at Pat, n.
[Aus] Sydney Gaz. 11 Apr. 3/3: I have been preyed upon by sharks, sharpers, flash-men, fencers, rum coves, squatters, nippers, lifters, and all the tag-rag-and-bobtail denoted by the worst words in the Slang Dictionary.
at shark, n.
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