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[Aus] Northern Terr. Times & Gaz. (Darwin) 8 Jan. 1/6[O]ur Protector [...] now half-amateur-detective, half trooper, with just a thought of the bush-whacker, returns with — Currant Billy: .
at bushwhacker, n.1
[Aus] North. Territory Times (Darwin) 15 Nov. 13/2: The barcoot rot, the barcoo spew, /The prickly heat, and dysentrew / [...] All caused by a little fly.
at Barcoo spew (n.) under Barcoo, n.
[Aus] Northern Terr. Times & Gaz. (Darwin) 18 Oct. 6/1: The Advisory Council had no more power than Billy the Blackfellow.
at Billy the blackfellow, n.
[Aus] Northern Terr. Times & Gaz. (Darwin) 1 July 5/1: A great many sensible people take exception to a Mayor lowering the dignity of his office by figuring in the public press with the view of damaging a candidate or even Billy the Blackfellow’s chances of scoring a win at the Council elections.
at Billy the blackfellow, n.
[Aus] North. Territory Times (Darwin) 11 July 7/3: You’re Drunk! [...] in the language of the classics you are well and truly inked.
at inked (up), adj.
[Aus] North. Territory Times (Darwin) 11 July 7/3: When you tell the wife you’re (hic) as shober ash can be — / It’s a pound to half a cherry that you’re jagging on the spree.
at jag, v.4
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