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Argus 11 Apr. 3/3: The fair debaters never once uttered the name of this odious part of a man’s dress [i.e. leather breeches]; upon whichMrs Montague declared they were truly and properly to be called unmentionables, as the prudes of the age had titled them. Melbourne Argus 18 Feb. 4/3: [T]rue, fat turkies are reared in Mercer's Vale, but surely an ‘Alderman in Chains’ could never compromise his integrity however sharp set he might be. Argus (Melbourne) 22 Sept. 2/6: [T]he writer promised a visit to Van Diemen’s Land [...] if Mr. Wintle allowed him to ‘gather chips’ enough for that purpose. Argus (Melbourne) 28 Jan. 2/4: About a month ago there was a great ‘yabber’ (as the blackfellows call it) concerning his Honour the Superintendant’s visit. Argus (Melbourne) 5 June 4/3: [L]and where one might flog a flea for miles and not lose sight of him once? Argus (Melbourne) 2 Feb. 2/2: Between Vandemonianism, Pentonvillany, and a’Beckettism, the citizens of Melbourne have anything but a cheering pospect before them. Argus (Melbourne) 5 Aug. 4/3: A certain ‘haw-haw’ pomposity of manner, which is assumed to cover actual mediocrily, is quite sufficient. Argus (Melbourne) 3 Mar. 3/1: On being told she was to be fined, she replied to the Bench with great vivacity, ‘Thank you, sir, and I’ll never pay it. [...] I’ll take it out in bricks and mortar’. Argus (Melbourne) 8 June 5/7: The term ‘gas’ is frequently used to denote that peculiar kind of enthusiasm which wastes itself in mere words, without reference to the effect they may produce. Argus (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 6/1: 220 feet digging is no plaything just now, with the prospect of a schicer at such depths . Argus (Melbourne) 31 Dec. 7/2: ‘Stevens struck Owens over the head; and after throwing him overboard, he said, “It’s all up now,’ or words to that effect, and jumped overboard. Argus (Melbourne) 4 July 5/7: The simile may not, in lawyers' slang, be exactly on all fours, but it bears some remote analogy to the sport of slipping ferrets into a warren, and knocking the poor rabbits on the head. Argus (Melbourne) 1 Dec. 6/2: ‘Mr. Price thinks no more of knocking a man down than looking at him. I know him to give orders to Sergeant Smith to neddy a man, and he refused to do it. Mr Price replied, “If you do not neddy that man I shall discharge you.” Serjeant Smith then neddied immediately’. Argus (Melbourne) 21 Nov. 7/2: [from Quarterly Rev., London] The detective can at once ascertain whether the fine gentleman walking careIessly along is ‘wrong,’ as the slang term is, or a respectable character. Argus (Melbourne) 6 Jan. 6/3: ‘Modern Fast Conversation’ [...] He does not drink beer, but ‘does malt,’ or (the nasty follow) ‘takes a drain’. Argus (Melbourne) 24 Mar. 6/7: The hon. Baronet also adorned his so-called lecture with such choice phrases as ‘lingo,’ ‘jingo,’ ‘a brick of a Governor,’ and various other specimens of slang phraseology. Argus (Melbourne) 6 Jan. 6/3: ‘Modern Fast Conversation’ [...] [A] ‘Bobby’ nearly ‘legged him off to the “stone jug”,’ thereby
meaning a policeman was on the point of locking him up. Argus (Melbourne) 6 Jan. 6/3: ‘Modern Fast Conversation’ [...] He does not drink beer, but ‘does malt,’ or (the nasty follow) ‘takes a drain’. Argus (Melbourne) 30 Nov. 5/5: The report [...] is copiously garnished with the slang of the prize ring; the various features of the brutal combatants being designated ‘ogles,’ ‘probosces,’ ‘smellers,’ ‘kissing traps,’ ‘winkers,’ &c. Argus (Melbourne) 26 Sept. 4/3: The Chinese — ‘the rice-eating and opium-chewing Mongolians‘ as he called them. Argus (Melbourne) 11 May 6/2: I hope and trust the working community will not be apathetic, but show by their votes that they wish to support liberal men, but not scowbankers, loafers, and spungers on society. Argys (Melbourne) 30 Nov. 5/5: The report [...] is copiously garnished with the slang of the prize ring; the various features of the brutal combatants being designated ‘ogles,’ ‘probosces,’ ‘smellers,’ ‘kissing traps,’ ‘winkers,’ &c. Argus (Melbourne) 14 Sept. 5/3: The third [accused] who was described as a regular wharf ‘coiler,’ was fined 40s damages. Argus (Melbourne) 13 Dec. 6/6: It is probable that his ex-Majesty will arrive here just in time to see [...] a sham fight, and the capture of Delhi – for which no end of bamboos [...] will be blown into fragments by the victorious British, for the edification of the Calcutta ditchers. Argus (Melbourne) 14 Sept. 5/3: ‘Harry Bryant’ and the other ‘Old Jemmy’ who were regular thimble-riggers, had been caught thimblerigging more than once. Argus (Melbourne) 28 Dec. 5/5: The Botany Bay coat of arms - a bloody nose and a black eye - was very generally conspicuous, but these rows were very much akin to those Hibernian scenes we have heard of as occurring at the famed Donnybrook Fair. Argus (Melbourne) 30 Apr. 4/6: [A] glossary is sometimes necessary to enable English readers to comprehend [...] American journals ! What, for example, is the meaning of ‘dod-derned’ and ‘dog-gone’. Argus (Melbourne) 30 Apr. 4/6: [A] glossary is sometimes necessary to enable English readers to comprehend [...] American journals ! What, for example, is the meaning of ‘dod-derned’ and ‘dog-gone,’ of [...] ‘some pumpkins’? of ‘dreadful slick,’ ‘everlasting cus,’ [...] ‘planking-down,’ and ‘dumfoozled’? Argus (Melbourne) 30 Apr. 4/6: [A] glossary is sometimes necessary to enable English readers to comprehend [...] American journals ! What, for example, is the meaning of ‘dod-derned’ and ‘dog-gone,’ of [...] ‘some pumpkins’? of ‘dreadful slick,’ ‘everlasting cus,’ [...] ‘planking-down,’ and ‘dumfoozled’? Argus (Melbourne) 30 Apr. 4/6: [A] glossary is sometimes necessary to enable English readers to comprehend [...] American journals ! What, for example, is the meaning of ‘dod-derned’ and ‘dog-gone,’ of [...] ‘some pumpkins’?