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Australasian Chron. (Sydney) 24 Mar. 2/5: [N]othing is more common than for a peaceable man to be lodged [...] in the lock-up under pretence of drunkenness, and then released [...] upon the payment of a fine, which in their slang they call tipping. Australasian Chron. (Sydney) 15 June 2/2: [W]hat a gulf there must be fixed between the gentlemanly flat and the genteel blackleg. Australasian Chron. (Sydney) 15 June 2/2: [W]hat a gulf there must be fixed between the gentlemanly flat and the genteel blackleg. letter to Australasian Chron. (Sydney) 8 Apr. 2/3: This club consists of some bankers’, attorneys’, and storekeepers’ clerks, and is facetiously called ‘Jingle’s Mob;’ [...] The taproom and pothouse are tihe only fit receptacles for such mushroom creatures. Australasian Chron. (Sydney) 19 July 2/1: On all max, lush, and lightning’s flash, the many wax too prolix. Australasian Chron. (Sydney) 19 July 2/1: On all max, lush, and lightning’s flash, the many wax too prolix. Australasian 298: Hyson-skin and post-and-rail tea have been superseded by Mocha, claret, and cognac. Australasian (Melbourne) 8 Apr. 7/3: In the afternoon prosecutor had a drink In the bar, and afterwards went into the ‘dead-house.’ Mr. Adamson—What is the dead-house? Prosecutor.—It is a place where they put people to sleep, so they call it the dead house. [...] Mr. Adamson.—What state were you in when you went into the dead-house ? Prosecutor (coolly).—I was what they call drunk. Australasian (Melbourne) 4 Aug. 11/2: The ‘route’ is not always hailed with delight by the soldier, but in my case it was, to use a slang term, ‘real nuts’. Australasian (Melbourne) 21 July 4/4: Some slang terms are perceived to have a comic foundation in truth, as in the Oxford name for a tailor, ‘a sufferer’. Australasian (Melbourne) 2 Feb. 139/2: [M]e, the steady old codger of the trio, pegging along [...] on a stout pony. Australasian (Melbourne) 2 Feb. 139/2: Jones on a leggy high-spirited screw, prancing about. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A skeleton key is a betty . (ref. to mid-16C) Australasian (Melbourne) 3 Apr. 27/2: Popular slang called the mystery of the Sacrament by the irreverent appellation of ‘Jack-in-the-box’. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: [A] Jack in (he box is is a screw used to break open a safe ; the operation is called nut-cracking. Australasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/3: At every step we have evidence of Hindoo origin. For instance, chur, a thief; maung, to beg; pane, water; tschib, the tongue. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: To forge is to ‘cooper,’ cooper meaning to destroy, and a cooper's mark is [a] triangle, which signifies that ‘business’ has been overdone. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: [A] cross-crib is a thieves’ house. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A man who gets over roofs or in at windows is called a garreter and a dancer. Australasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: The derivation of Sydney-sider and Derwenter, &c is obvious. Australasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A prison is [...] the doss. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A man who gets over roofs or in at windows is called a garreter and a dancer. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: Some other [local] terms are noticeable — ‘the Government stroke’. Australasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: Thirteen pence is called hangman’s wages. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A crowbar is a jemmy and jilt. The boy who is put in at the window to open the door is called a little snake. Australasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/3: At every step we have evidence of Hindoo origin. For instance [...] Tschib, the tongue [...] is the root'
of the word "gibberish," meaning rapidly spoken or incomprehensible talk;. Australasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A turnkey is called a jigger dubber. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A crowbar is a jemmy and jilt. The boy who is put in at the window to open the door is called a little snake. Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A kidment is a device to entrap . Australiasian (Melbourne) 17 July 8/5: A crowbar is a jemmy and jilt. The boy who is put in at the window to open the door is called a little snake.