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Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Oct. 14/1: That got his Italian blood up. He swore a few.at few, a, adv.
Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Oct. 14/1: That got his Italian blood up. He swore a few. Bulletin (Sydney) 22 May 4/4: Joe Wallace the proprietor of New Zealand Punch, is ‘up a tree.’ He will probably [...] carry on the same old game i.e. project and publish a subsidised comic weekly, and then ‘smash’.at up a tree, phr.
Bulletin (Sydney) 26 June 3/1: The ‘agony column’ of the Argus swells daily.at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Apr. 4/2: Cain looked rather darkly on the agreeable rattle by him, and said rather darkly, ‘Change the subject’.at agreeable rattle, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Feb. 4/4: They besiege the lemonade boy and treat their Mary Anns liberally to all that’s in the basket, and if the Opera prove romantic, […] they may be seen to pass their arm in an elephantine manner around their buxom partners’ waists.at mary ann, n.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Oct. 3/2: Four creditors [...] followed Green and bailed him up, one of the number presenting a pistol at him and ordering him to ‘ante up’.at ante (up), v.
Bulletin (Sydney) 22 May 4/1: An enterprising (Sydney) newspaper proprietor recently advertised, that he’d give [...] bonuses to those news boys who, [...] would sell most copies. Of course, half-a-dozen arabs dabbed together, and one of the number bought for the lot. The newspaper proprietor now says that street arabs are smarter than capitalists.at arab, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 22 May 4/1: Not that any one would try to ‘get at’ a jury, not even in Bathhurst!at get at, v.
Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Apr. 3/4: ‘You girls call your sweethearts ‘darlings,’ and you men call yours ‘daises,’ [sic] and you girls are afraid to come up here for fear some other girls will get off with your ‘darlings,’ and you men for fear some other men will get away with your ‘daisies’ .at get away (with), v.
Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Apr. 5/4: The reporters used to calll him Bacon, of course it doesn’t matter if it was Chawbacon.at chaw-bacon, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Feb. 7/1: He was a scamp, a bad lot, and had been transported years before for dishonesty in the bank in which he was employed.at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Apr. 3/2: [A] cook in New Zealand, who having been asked by her mistress to ‘cook the sausages at the same time as she made the tea,’ with charming innocence put what Professor Pepper would term the ‘bags of mystery’ into the tea-urn.at bag of mystery (n.) under bag, n.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 26 June 3/1: [heading] Notes from Banana Land.at Bananaland (n.) under banana, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Oct. 4/1: Thorne, M.L.A., wants to know what has become of the blacks’ blankets. Most ‘Banana men’ begin to think things look fishy.at banana man (n.) under banana, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Aug. 13/4: No reporter should enter the witness box with the ‘bark’ off his nose.at bark, n.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Dec. 4/3: ‘Long sleevers,’ or pints of beer, are known as ‘Bishop Barkers’.at Bishop Barker, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. 5/4: He knew how to make and to take care of the bawbees, and his son knows how to put them to their right use.at baubee, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 3 July 9/3: [of a coal wholesaler] The ‘Black Diamond King’ of Sydney.at black diamonds (n.) under black, adj.
Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Apr. 4/3: Three well-known ‘blackbirders’, alias Government labour agents [...] are known as ‘The world, the flesh and the angel’.at blackbirder, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Oct. 8/1: Lingard called an Auckland reporter a ‘blackguard’ for ‘slating’ the production of ‘Pinafore’.at blackguard, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 29 May 2/4: Four Newcastle women have been fined £2 each for assaulting ‘blacklegs’ put on to supply their husbands’ places daring strike.at blackleg, n.2
Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Apr. 4/1: He’s a real learned blade.at blade, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Dec. 4/3: I’ve been in this country for five an’ twenty years, and all I’ve got’s arf a blank blanket and a blank dog.at blank, adj.
Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Mar. n.p.: Mr dear Parkes, – See you blowed first: go to blazes.at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Oct. 14/1: Cronquest tumbled into a blind creek at the end of the township. It is called a ‘blind’ creek. The people are too kind to say the creek was intoxicated.at blind, adj.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Nov. 2/1: The more unromantic of the company are busy taking large semi-circular bites out of huge sandwiches, washing down the same with pints of ‘Blood’.at blood, n.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Aug. 9/1: Mr Airey, the former Parliamentary blowhard.at blowhard, n.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Mar. 4/1: Australians may be given to ‘blowing,’ but ‘gas’ does not always carry the day, as was exemplified in a recent case of ‘trying it on,’ by our Sydney Gaslight Company.at blowing, n.3
Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Feb. 4/1: There is really a great deal of espièglerie in this rather lanky baby, who probably, when she has cut her wisdom teeth, will develop into a ‘blue,’ for she apparently knows such an astounding lot of subjects, and is equally fluent in all – a pedagogue in petticoats.at blue, n.1
Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Feb. 1/4: We waited rather anxiously and the myrmidons of the law did come […]; but who could break through such a closely packed army of ladies […] – they quietly ignored the ‘blue-bottles’ and their buzz.at bluebottle, n.
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