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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.
Colonial Reformer I 147: The overseer rode off, puzzled as to whether the new hand was laughing at him or was ‘a single short’. Colonial Reformer I 187: He really did not care two straws what became of them.at not care a straw, v.
Colonial Reformer III 227: They positively did not care a rush for each other.at not care a rush, v.
Colonial Reformer I 76: No educated blackfellow was ever worth a curse.at not worth a curse, phr.
Colonial Reformer II 233: He was an ‘ace-of-clubs’ man with the pistol.at ace, n.
Colonial Reformer I 116: We’ll drink tea till all’s blue.at till all is blue, phr.
Colonial Reformer I 148: When it coms to anything out-and-out serious, act determined.at out-and-out, adj.
Colonial Reformer III 5: If my friend was to be wide awake and take up his fresh selection with judgment.at wide-awake, adj.
Colonial Reformer 102: You might [...] wear a wide-awake and a tourist suit at a flower-show.at wide-awake, n.
Colonial Reformer III 185: I couldn’t help rolling in, seeing the master double-banked.at double-bank, v.
Colonial Reformer II 42: If you go barneying about calves, or counting horses that’s give in, he’ll best ye.at barney, v.
Colonial Reformer II 42: If you go barneying about calves, or counting horses that’s give in, he’ll best ye.at best, v.
Colonial Reformer I 34: A ‘black hat’ in Australian parlance means a new arrival.at black hat (n.) under black, adj.
Colonial Reformer II 63: Go to blazes! Five hundred more likely.at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Colonial Reformer III 149: A regular Sydney man thinks all Victorians are blowers and speculators.at blower, n.2
Colonial Reformer II 12: The gay uniforms of the soldiers and blue-jackets.at bluejacket, n.
Colonial Reformer III 4: Their cattle was falling off [...] No calves given in, except regular staggering Bobs.at staggering bob, n.
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
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.
Colonial Reformer III 245: When they was bull-punchers without credit for a bag of flour.at bull-puncher (n.) under bull, n.1
Colonial Reformer I 196: By George, Jack, you’re a regular bullocky boy.at bullocky, n.
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
Colonial Reformer III 149: They believe that [...] the whole thing will ‘bust up’ directly.at bust, v.1
Colonial Reformer III 79: He would butter up the old man.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
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.
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
Colonial Reformer III 112: They’ve [cattle] had something to eat, but they’re pretty well choked for a drink.at choked, adj.
Colonial Reformer II 56: Gregor was out at cockcrow, to kill a sheep for morning chops.at chops, n.1
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.
Colonial Reformer III 104: It ain’t quite the clean potato, of course.at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.
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