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[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 168: ‘We got an eighteen, and plenty o’ bottles coming over.’.
at eighteen, n.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 167: A pair of twelve-ounce pots tasted all right after the hard half-shift, but insufficient.
at pot, n.1
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 113: It’s brutal weather.
at brutal, adj.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 174: I’m a wheat-cocky.
at cocky, n.2
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 187: Joe [...] twisted my arm harder, and I doubled up until my nose nearly touched the ground. ‘That’s right,’ said Joe. ‘Eat gravel, skunk.’.
at eat gravel (v.) under eat, v.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 4: When school came out I played footy.
at footie, n.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 50: He was a plump, rosy little chap, a bit girlie.
at girlie, adj.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 16: It was long enough for dad to die, and be buried on a howling wet day.
at howling, adj.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 50: If we’re not going to have him any more what about nicking off before he gets here?
at nick off (v.) under nick, v.3
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 3: You only wanted me an’ Fat to keep nit.
at keep nit (v.) under nit!, excl.2
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 51: Whoever says I’m a pimp is a liar.
at pimp, n.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 23: I took a rush and gave him a rabbit-killer that must have nearly broken his neck.
at rabbit killer (n.) under rabbit, n.1
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 18: She could get a job in one of the big ragshops in the city.
at rag shop (n.) under rag, n.1
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 9: A rug was reckoned to provide privacy enough for a bit of smoodging.
at smoodge, v.
[Aus] G. Casey It’s Harder for Girls 25: You’re a bit of a thickhead, Jack.
at thickhead, n.
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