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Love Me Sailor choose

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[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 68: It would have been funny to see that old shellback riding the spanker boom for giving back slack to the second mate.
at backslack (n.) under back, adj.2
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 21: Hey, Duke, you’ve been with one of them! Don’t these society dames have a bit when they get that way?
at have a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 74: She’s got one short leg but the perkiest pair of bits.
at bits, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 151: The old man wasn’t letting Christianson blow any more gaff.
at blow one’s top, v.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 96: You useless bubble-eyed lump of blubber.
at blubber, n.2
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 175: Not my fault the old man logged you, Mister Samuals. I’ll do my best to break it down with the owners.
at break down, v.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 171: Bugger it all mister.
at bugger it!, excl.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 207: Stick that fat arse in Bunghole.
at bunghole, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 150: They shuffled back, like chooks scolded with an old woman’s apron.
at chook, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 45: You ruttin’ greeping gockroach! Vot vor you greep after me?
at cockroach, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 165: I sent a hand to get my donkey’s breakfast. We rolled the old man on it.
at donkey’s breakfast (n.) under donkey, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 12: I had just remembered a little bit of slit-eye I used to know in Chinatown.
at slant-eye, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 61: Give it to me ye swivel-eyed bastard!
at swivel-eyed, adj.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 11: ‘Here, dig your fishhooks into one end of the chest there, Ern.’ We swung the chest off the floor between us.
at fish-hook (n.) under fish, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 86: Hey! stow yer gabs there, an’ let Ernie play us somethin’.
at stow one’s gab (v.) under gab, n.2
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 179: Aw, shut yer bloody gaff.
at gaff, n.2
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 220: Captain [...] take your rutting ship . . . stick it up your grommet!
at grommet, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 153: A bloody fine specimen of a sailor!—look at the herring-gutted swab, mister!
at herring-gutted, adj.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 21: Ah ha! So de old man he giff her some leg opener, eh?
at leg-opener (n.) under leg, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 258: The bitch was mad — mad as a march hare. Absolutely loco!
at loco/loca, adj.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 10: Only for that rutting Miss Miller I wouldn’t be back in this godamned louse house!
at louse house (n.) under louse, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 119: Go on you big . . . big lubber!
at lubber, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 107: Old Joe jabbed his broken stemmed pipe [...] ‘I just nicked in fer a draw . . .’.
at nick, v.3
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 17: The elder held a ‘nose warmer’ between his aged, bleached lips.
at nose warmer (n.) under nose, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 52: He can save his damned oats up until we get into port—like any sailor.
at oats, n.2
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 21: The old man can [...] go below whenever he feels like a bit of passenger pie.
at pie, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 10: ‘I bet she’ll have to open up her own little purse before we’ve been a week at sea.’ I said. ‘Don’t talk that way about her. She’s decent,’ Ern said.
at purse, n.
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 20: That old ram will miss nothing.
at ram, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love Me Sailor 209: He soared up the steps again like a rat up a shoreline.
at like a rat up a drainpipe (adv.) under rat, n.1
[Aus] R.S. Close Love me Sailor 10: Only for that rutting Miss Miller I wouldn’t be back in this godamned louse house! [Ibid.] 258: Absolutely loco! A rutting lunatic!
at rutting, adj.
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