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[NZ] in Alistair Campbell Island To Island (1984) 40: It is a well known fact that the girls make the best teachers — hence the old colonial saying, ‘Get a sleeping dictionary, my boy’.
at sleeping dictionary (n.) under sleep, v.
[NZ] in A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 98: We’ve got a great crowd here — they’re rough as guts.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[NZ] (con. 1935) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 87: We’d gang up on the kids who chucked off at us — like the boys from the Catholic home. They’d call us ‘Pressbuttons’; we’d call them ‘doolans’.
at press button, n.
[NZ] (con. 1934) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 87: We’d gang up on the kids who chucked off at us.
at chuck off (at) (v.) under chuck, v.2
[NZ] (con. 1935) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 87: We’d gang up on the kids who chucked off at us — like the boys from the Catholic home [...] we’d call them ‘doolans’, ‘doolies’, ‘Mickey Doolans’ — or worse.
at doolan, n.
[NZ] (con. 1935) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 87: We’d gang up on the kids who chucked off at us — like the boys from the Catholic home [...] we’d call them ‘doolans’, ‘doolies’, ‘Mickey Doolans’ — or worse.
at Mickey Doolan, n.
[NZ] (con. 1935) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 89: Small boys and girls (tarts or ‘jam tarts’, we used to call them).
at jam tart, n.
[NZ] (con. 1935) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 89: You could [...] skite in front of the ‘sheilas’ while feigning total indifference.
at skite, v.1
[NZ] (con. 1944) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 99: A swaggie had a regular beat [...] and was a familiar sight, with his torn felt hat, tattered overcoat and his sack over his shoulder.
at swaggie, n.
[NZ] (con. 1940) A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 98: They went to the tuckshop for a milkshake.
at tuckshop (n.) under tuck, n.1
[NZ] A. Campbell Island To Island (1984) 20: His bowels were all bunged up.
at bunged up, adj.
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