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New South Wales II 21: The instant blacky perceives whity beating a retreat, he vociferates after him.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
New South Wales II 21: The instant blacky perceives whity beating a retreat, he vociferates after him. New South Wales II 232: If the robbery is likely to be blown, they will hide a portion of the plunder.at blown, adj.
New South Wales II 233: The person they palm the robbery upon is always some simple country fellow, with but little bounce or gammon in his composition.at bounce, n.1
New South Wales II 202: The buoyant spirits of ‘the boys’ were knocked under for a time by these mishaps.at boys, the, n.
New South Wales II 209: The first man’s heedless exposure of himself arose from his bulling a rum-cask and drinking off the contents.at bull, v.2
New South Wales II 117: Convicts of but recent migration are facetiously known by the name of canaries, by reason of the yellow plumage in which they are fledged at the period of landing.at canary, n.1
New South Wales II 277: Accosting gentlemen [...] whom she saw chirping in the streets to the Paphians.at chirp, v.
New South Wales II 258: A clever fellow is a bang-up, bold, thorough-going knave, an able ‘actor of all work’.at clever, adj.
New South Wales II 264: One of these was endued with the natural gift of ‘coming the piteous’ (to use their own slang).at come the..., v.
P. Cunningham New South Wales II 23: In calling to each other at a distance, the natives make use of the word Coo-ee, as we do the word Hollo, prolonging the sound of the coo, and closing that of the ee with a shrill jerk [...] [It has] become of general use throughout the colony; and a newcomer, in desiring an individual to call another back, soon learns to say ‘Coo-ee’ to him instead of Hollo to him.at within (a) cooee of under cooee, n.
New South Wales II 116: We have [...] Colonial born, the latter bearing also the name of cornstalks (Indian corn), from the way in which they shoot up.at cornstalk, n.
New South Wales II 237: ‘Three peters cracked and frisked,’ made a frequent opening of the morning’s log.at crack, v.2
New South Wales II 20: It is amusing to see the consequential swagger of some of these dingy dandies, as they pace lordly up our streets.at dingy, adj.1
in New South Wales.at tumble (down the sink), n.
New South Wales II 237: ‘Three peters cracked and frisked,’ made a frequent opening of the morning’s log.at frisk, v.2
New South Wales II 232: All these innocent rogues [...] laugh and vaunt most immoderately, when sitting among their comrades, how they have gammoned you over.at gammon, v.
New South Wales II 59: A number of slang phrases current in St Giles’ Greek bid fair to become legitimized in the dictionary of this colony.at St Giles’s Greek (n.) under St Giles, n.
New South Wales II 16: He once looked into one of their gins’ (wives’) bags, and found the fleshy part of a man’s thigh wrapped up therein.at gin, n.1
New South Wales II 117: Convicts [...] when fairly domiciliated [...] are more respectfully spoken of under the loyal designation of government-men, the term convict being erased by a sort of general tacit compact from our Botany dictionary.at government man (n.) under government, n.
New South Wales II 260: This joker, who would [...] praise the wonderful expertise with which he had done the farmers out of their grunters.at grunter, n.
New South Wales II 116: Next, we have the legitimates, or cross-breds, — namely, such as have legal reasons for visiting this colony; and the illegitimates, or such as are free from that stigma.at illegitimate, n.
New South Wales II 273: Jack, as soon as tired of the ‘happy state,’ would take to ship again.at jack, n.5
New South Wales II 228: The one being as expert a housebreaker as ever handled a jemmy.at jemmy, n.3
New South Wales II 209: A different style to what he would probably have done had he not imbibed such an over-dose of the juice.at juice, n.1
New South Wales I 16: The suspicion each entertains of legitimacy being the cause of the other’s appearance. Note, Legitimacy, a colonial term for designating the cause of the emigration of a certain portion of our population; i.e. having legal reasons for making the voyage.at legitimacy, n.
New South Wales II 116: Next, we have the legitimates, or cross-breds, — namely, such as have legal reasons for visiting this colony; and the illegitimates, or such as are free from that stigma.at legitimate, n.
New South Wales II 242: Many a Mac in your town, if only he knew what the situation of a convict was, would not be long in following my example!at Mac, n.1
New South Wales II 116: The pure merinos [...] pride themselves on being of the purest blood in the colony.at pure merino, n.
New South Wales II 64: Scientific mills often take place, also, between lads of the fancy, for prize purses.at mill, n.1
New South Wales II 233: if they suspect anyone of nosing, they will conceal some of their own things in his bag.at nose, v.
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