1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 187: He really did not care two straws what became of them.at not care a straw, v.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 147: The overseer rode off, puzzled as to whether the new hand was laughing at him or was ‘a single short’.at shingle short, a, adj.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 227: They positively did not care a rush for each other.at not care a rush, v.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 76: No educated blackfellow was ever worth a curse.at not worth a curse, phr.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 233: He was an ‘ace-of-clubs’ man with the pistol.at ace, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 116: We’ll drink tea till all’s blue.at till all is blue, phr.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 148: When it coms to anything out-and-out serious, act determined.at out-and-out, adj.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 5: If my friend was to be wide awake and take up his fresh selection with judgment.at wide-awake, adj.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer 102: You might [...] wear a wide-awake and a tourist suit at a flower-show.at wide-awake, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 185: I couldn’t help rolling in, seeing the master double-banked.at double-bank, v.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 42: If you go barneying about calves, or counting horses that’s give in, he’ll best ye.at barney, v.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 42: If you go barneying about calves, or counting horses that’s give in, he’ll best ye.at best, v.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 34: A ‘black hat’ in Australian parlance means a new arrival.at black hat (n.) under black, adj.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 63: Go to blazes! Five hundred more likely.at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 149: A regular Sydney man thinks all Victorians are blowers and speculators.at blower, n.2
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 12: The gay uniforms of the soldiers and blue-jackets.at bluejacket, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 4: Their cattle was falling off [...] No calves given in, except regular staggering Bobs.at staggering bob, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 154: He’s [a horse] a bottler, that’s what he is; and if you ever go for to sell him, you’ll be sorry.at bottler, n.1
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 25: Don’t you think we shall be hard set to get home before the ‘brickfielder’ falls upon us?at brickfielder (n.) under brick, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 245: When they was bull-punchers without credit for a bag of flour.at bull-puncher (n.) under bull, n.1
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 196: By George, Jack, you’re a regular bullocky boy.at bullocky, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 53: And I know he had a ‘burst’ at that wretched Stockman’s Arms the last time he was down the river.at burst, n.2
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 149: They believe that [...] the whole thing will ‘bust up’ directly.at bust, v.1
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 79: He would butter up the old man.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 78: We couldn’t give the party the go-by anyhow, unless they went into their huts.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 78: Can’t you get your canaries off the track here for about a quarter of an hour, and let my mob of cattle pass?at canary, n.1
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 112: They’ve [cattle] had something to eat, but they’re pretty well choked for a drink.at choked, adj.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II 56: Gregor was out at cockcrow, to kill a sheep for morning chops.at chops, n.1
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 35: What a brute that mare of yours is to amble, Tottie [...] can’t you make her go a more Christian pace?at Christian, adj.
1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 104: It ain’t quite the clean potato, of course.at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.