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Caddie: A Sydney Barmaid choose

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[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 57: He walked slowly over to the grate and ashed his cigarette.
at ash, v.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 208: He hasn’t got himself a ball and chain yet.
at ball and chain (n.) under ball, n.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 225: I thought of them forking out their hard-earned treys and zacks and bobs and nearly cried.
at trey-bit, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 93: Prostitutes and their bludgers have priority in this place.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 209: Caddie! That’s a bonzer name all right.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 36: I must have looked a regular bushwacker the day I stepped out of the train on to Central Station. What a fright!
at bushwhacker, n.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 252: I suppose he hit the roof.
at hit the ceiling, v.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 210: The ol’ joker mightn’t be all he’s crackin’ ’imself up ter be.
at not all it’s cracked up to be under crack up, v.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 217: Me clobbers already in Moscow [...] I’m blowed if I know, but there don’t seem nuthin’ a man can raise a deaner on.
at deener, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 208: Here it is, digger.
at digger, n.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 141: Two of the other barmaids [...] went in for a bit of gold-digging.
at gold-digging, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 257: ‘I’ll get you a drink,’ I said and hurried to the bar, and returned quickly with a double-header brandy.
at double-header (n.) under double, adj.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 224: I saw the king pin [...] I drummed him about you bein’ crook.
at drum, v.2
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 248: Shows I’m not too dusty, eh? Haven’t lost my sex appeal.
at dusty, adj.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 199: Why, yer ain’t goin’ ter do a moonlight flit, are you?
at moonlight flit, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 240: I began to have fewer headaches about money.
at headache, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 143: By the way he was tearin’ the skee into him he’ll be four sheets in the wind.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 140: Kneeling down behind the bar counter we could pour ourselves a glass of ginger-ale [...] A whistled Joey from a barmaid was the danger signal.
at joey, n.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 136: Come on, wot about a bit of a luv-up?
at love up, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 217: Me clobber’s already in Moscow, an’ so is me tan shoes.
at Moscow, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 199: I turned the corner of my street to see the rabbit-o’s horse and cart.
at rabbit-o, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 41: My mother-in-law was a pannikin* snob as my father would have said. *From pannikin boss—a person of very minor authority.
at pannikin boss (n.) under pannikin, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie viii: The typical New South Wales bar, with its ‘perpendicular’ drinking (tables would take up profitable standing room).
at perpendicular, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 223: I’ll pop me clobber termorrer ter raise the wind for yer.
at raise the wind (v.) under raise, v.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 224: There’s no doubt about it, Bill, you’re a good scout.
at scout, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 204: S’pose I’d better be orf now; gotta see a man about a dog.
at see a man about a dog (v.) under see, v.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 143: By the way he was tearin’ the skee into him he’ll be four sheets in the wind.
at skee, n.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 263: I had a tidy little sock in the bank.
at sock, n.1
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 210: It’s no good paying out good spondulicks if yer c’n help it.
at spondulics, n.
[Aus] D. Cusack Caddie 224: You didn’t work a swiftie on them, did you?
at swiftie, n.
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