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[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And a tin-back is a party / Who’s remarkable for luck.
at tin-arse, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his ladylove’s his donah, / Or his clinah or his tart, / Or his little bit o’ muslin, / As it used to be his bart.
at bart, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his ladylove’s his donah, / Or his clinah or his tart, / Or his little bit o’ muslin, / As it used to be his bart.
at bit of muslin (n.) under bit, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his naming of the coinage / Is a mystery to some, / With his quid and half-a-caser / And his deener and his scrum.
at half-a-caser (n.) under caser, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his clothes he calls his clobber / Or his togs, but what of that / When a castor or a kady / Is the name he gives his hat!
at castor, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his food is called his tucker / Or his panem or his chuck.
at chuck, n.3
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: A policeman is a johnny / Or a copman or a trap.
at copman, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: But when things go as he wants ’em / He declares it is all cush.
at cush, adj.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his naming of the coinage / Is a mystery to some, / With his quid and half-a-caser / And his deener and his scrum.
at deener, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 116: And a dickon pitch to kid us / Is a synonym for lie.
at dickon pitch, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And when looking for employment / He is out o’ blooming graft.
at graft, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: A policeman is a johnny / Or a copman or a trap.
at johnny, n.2
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: A conviction’s known as trouble, / And a gaol is called a jug.
at jug, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his clothes he calls his clobber / Or his togs, but what of that / When a castor or a kady / Is the name he gives his hat!
at kadi, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: If he borrows money from you / He will say he bit your lug.
at bite someone’s lug (v.) under lug, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Australian Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And a bosom friend’s a cobber, / And a horse a prad or moke.
at moke, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: When he’s bright he’s got a napper, / But he’s ratty when he’s daft.
at have a napper (v.) under napper, n.2
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 116: And to nark it means to stop it, / And to nit it means to fly!
at nark, v.2
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 116: And to nark it means to stop it, / And to nit it means to fly!
at nit, v.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his food is called his tucker / Or his panem or his chuck.
at pannam, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: If he hits a man in fighting / That is what he calls a plug.
at plug, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And a bosom friend’s a cobber, / And a horse a prad or moke.
at prad, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: When he’s bright he’s got a napper, / But he’s ratty when he’s daft.
at ratty, adj.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And his naming of the coinage / Is a mystery to some, / With his quid and half-a-caser / And his deener and his scrum.
at scrum, n.1
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And to shake it is to steal it, / And to strike it is to beg.
at shake, v.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And a thing obtained on credit / Is invariably strap.
at strap, n.5
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: A conviction’s known as trouble, / And a gaol is called a jug.
at trouble, n.
[Aus] W.T. Goodge ‘Great Aus. Slanguage’ in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 117: And a sharper is a spieler, / And a simpleton’s a tug.
at tug, n.
[Aus] Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jan. q. in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 110: [note] Flimsy, rag, carpet, £1 note.
at carpet, n.3
[Aus] in Baker Aus. Lang. (1945) 166: Here is a group of recipes as published by an outback newspaper in 1936 [...] Methylated spirits, ginger beer and a teaspoon of bootpolish. (This is the Fitzroy or Doman cocktail).
at domain cocktail (n.) under domain, n.
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