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Bastards I Have Known choose

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[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 114: Wally was as mad as a cut snake.
at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 98: She wasn’t altogether impressed with the ‘B’s’ of this world.
at b, n.1
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 30: Spasser’s father wasn’t a bad bastard but he gave a pretty good beating.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 62: After a real blue with Roy over nothing in particular he gave his notice.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 48: The Bughouse was where all the courting was done and the romantic melodramas that came on the big screen were being acted out.
at bughouse, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 95: The ‘cubby’ as Jan called the secondary holding place, was an unglamorous narrow room.
at cubby, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 26: Estelle was the real dobber.
at dobber, n.1
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 61: He lifted the engine cover and peered around the donk.
at donk, n.1
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 1: Where’s that bleedin’ drongo got to with the grog?
at drongo, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 12: Both flat out like lizards drinking, we were soon neck and neck.
at flat-out, adv.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 114: A half-eaten hunk of fritz.
at fritz, n.1
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 5: Bert’s plonk was evil [...] Bill flung his mugful out, remarking in no uncertain terms how much like ‘tiger’s piss’ it tasted.
at gnat’s piss (n.) under gnat, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 55: He was a jackeroo who completed the team which looked after the livestock.
at jackaroo, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 28: Cigarettes were a pretty valuable commodity [...] we traded the much sought-after tailor-mades.
at tailor-made, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 15: My old man had found [...] the money box behind the wood heap without a brass razoo left in it.
at brass razoo under razoo, n.1
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 27: He spent most of the afternoon with ‘sissy-britches’ as we fondly called his house companion.
at sissy pants (n.) under sissy, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 5: We workers were sitting around having a smoko.
at smoko, n.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 27: The by-now-sozzle-eyed Head walked in the door.
at sozzled, adj.
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 52: I was riding down the steep Mount Barker Road with my swag.
at swag, n.1
[Aus] P. Barton Bastards I Have Known 151: When the Spag Bog finally arrived I was really up a gum tree [...] at a complete loss knowing what tools to use.
at tools, n.
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