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Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 11: There was one from whom I feared the remark, that ‘a bad shilling was ill to get quit of,’ were I to appear among my late companions again.at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 11: There was one from whom I feared the remark, that ‘a bad shilling was ill to get quit of,’ were I to appear among my late companions again. Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 48: He quietly confessed himself ‘done brown’.at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 16: The ill-looking rascal [...] went by the name of ‘Brummie’.at Brummy, n.
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 27: His opponent, a ‘new chum’ fresh from England and conceited with excess of science, had looked on him as an unlearned bumpkin.at new chum, n.
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 16: I learnt that nearly all the company had been ‘Government men,’ as convicts style themselves.at government man (n.) under government, n.
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 19: The transaction was looked upon not as a robbery, but as a first-rate practical joke, marred only by the two jokers having to absent themselves [...] on account of ‘the noise’ the victim had made about it to the police.at noise, n.1
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 13: About midnight they came—a noisy multitude, full of brandy and ‘Old Tom’.at old tom, n.
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 15: These [shearers] having been made debtors for ‘slop’ goods, and for liquor supplied to them at the rate of twenty shillings a bottle, felt themselves on the wrong side of the law for showing airs, having no money to pay off their score [...] they gladly for the sake of two bottles more agreed to the terms he now imposed on them.at slop, n.1
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 16: I learnt that nearly all the company had been ‘Government men,’ as convicts style themselves. [...] [and] being a ‘square head,’ that is one outside of their community, I would readily be suspected if were tales told.at squarehead, n.1
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 14: They adjourned to the tap-room for a ‘stiffener’.at stiffener, n.2
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 2: The packs, or as we were taught to call them, ‘swags,’ began to sit heavy on many of our unaccustomed shoulders.at swag, n.1
Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne 18: One was related as a piece of confidence from an absent comrade, the circumstance happening on ‘the Sydney side’.at Sydneysider, n.
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