1923 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 15: He breezed into the bach as large as life.at bach, n.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ Me and Gus (1977) 18: If anyone had spoken to me like that I’d have cracked them.at crack, v.1
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Bull’ in Me And Gus (1977) 44: I thought the old chap was done that time.at done, adj.
1923 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 12: I could see Gus’s eye following a tall, willowy fairy as she waltzed round.at fairy, n.1
1923 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 15: Nick [...] said ‘Hold the reins, Mary, while I get out and wipe the dirt with that snipe.’.at wipe the floor (with), v.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Bull’ in Me And Gus (1977) 43: The way he went off about it was a fair scorcher.at go off, v.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 20: Everybody knows a horse is goosed after it has cleared out once.at goosed, adj.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 21: It only gave us twenty-six bob for a day’s graft.at graft, n.2
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 18: Gus said the horse was an out-and-out jibber.at jibber, n.
1923–4 F. Anthony Me And Gus (1977) 15: All he wanted me to do was to go into town with him in the jigger.at jigger, n.5
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ Me And Gus (1977) 20: He said we could hop in that winter while the cows were dry, and knock up anything up to a fiver a day each.at knock up, v.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ Me And Gus (1977) 22: Those two old chaps over the fence had knocked up over two cord that day.at knock up, v.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 17: What’s the use of shooting a good moke like that just because she’s high-spirited?at moke, n.1
1923 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 11: I’m always mug enough to accept the offer.at mug, adj.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Horse’ in Me And Gus (1977) 19: He told us that the horse was a rank outlaw.at outlaw, n.
1923 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 12: We took a seat and piped off all the good-lookers.at pipe off (v.) under pipe, v.3
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 14: I was still gazing into the black night, listening to that rattletrap old engine.at rattletrap, adj.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Gus Buys a Bull’ in Me And Gus (1977) 43: The way he went off about it was a fair scorcher.at scorcher, n.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Vilet Again’ in Me And Gus (1977) 49: I generally have a tin of golden syrup at my show, if any visitor drops in.at show, n.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Mowing Our Hay’ in Me And Gus (1977) 57: I snapped the offer before he had time to change his mind.at snap, v.
1923 F. Anthony ‘Helping Out Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 15: We parted real snarky at the finish.at snarky, adj.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 21: It didn’t seem such a wonderful snip to me, after I had worked it out on paper.at snip, n.
1923–4 F. Anthony ‘Wood-Splitting with Gus’ in Me And Gus (1977) 20: The year of the great butter slump, when all the farmers were doing a starve.at do a starve (v.) under starve, n.
1924 F. Anthony ‘Violet Again’ in Me And Gus (1977) 50: She greeted me with a gracious smile, so I knew it was all serene.at all serene, adj.
1924 F. Anthony ‘Violet Again’ Me and Gus (1977) 52: I was to keep away, and not come and deliberately ‘put his pot on’ the way I’d just done.at put someone’s pot on (v.) under pot, n.1
1938 F. Anthony ‘Gus Tomlins’ in Me And Gus (1977) 106: He was a shingle short, in some ways.at shingle short, a, adj.
1938 F. Anthony ‘Gus Tomlins’ in Me And Gus (1977) 172: They looked as mad as meat-axes, thinking about the cat, but neither had the nerve to say anything.at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
1938 F. Anthony ‘Gus Tomlins’ in Me And Gus (1977) 122: All the mouldy old agriculture tomes that littered up his bach.at bach, n.