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[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 35: She was a Big Smoke sheila who’d married a local cocky.
at Big Smoke, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 35: The locals bogged into their sandwiches with pretended gusto.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 213: Tell me, what the devil would cattle-duffers do with drilling gear?
at cattle-duffer, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 213: This used to be great cattle-duffing country in the old days.
at cattle-duffing, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 44: With the coming of the hoboes in their thousands such picturesque phrases as ‘waltzing matilda’ and ‘humping bluey’ – not forgetting ‘the curse of Cain’ to define a swag – vanished from our language.
at curse of God, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 85: Find yourself a shady spot behind the dumpty-doo [...] and do some hard thinking.
at dumpty, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 32: Sixty-five my ruddy eye! I’m nudgin’ eighty!
at my eye(s)!, excl.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 32: Old Lolly Legs postulated [...] that mankind was slowly but surely going mad, and that vote-seeking politicians of the future would have to promise ‘bigger and better giggle-houses’.
at giggle house (n.) under giggle, adj.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 123: He reckoned any good Australian grass-fighter, fast on his feet, could skittle a shillelagh man in no time.
at grass-fighter (n.) under grass, n.1
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 35: Most of the dancers [...] hurried off home at a dickens of a lick.
at lick, n.2
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 49: He’s in the can at Maitland [...] He got lumbered outside Newcastle. Copped a month.
at lumbered, adj.1
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 85: I can remember a squatter’s wife who was a hoity-toity old nark.
at nark, n.1
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 214: Even though I might nark McMulga by saying so, I really enjoyed that trip out to the oil country.
at nark, v.1
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 121: My favourite town is strictly a one-horse town on the Queensland coastline.
at one-horse (adj.) under one, adj.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 49: ‘How’s Bendigo now, mate?’ ‘Aw, up to putty.’.
at up to putty (adj.) under putty, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 46: A hobo’s swag was known as a ‘racehorse’ swag—long and lean.
at racehorse, n.
[Aus] R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen 107: Willie, although an honest man, had what is known today as a gimmick. [...] We referred to it as ‘Willie’s rort.’.
at rort, n.1
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