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[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 120: Muranivich’s ‘drunks’ were fearsome things. Alcohol stimulated every nerve to activity.
at drunk, n.
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 23: He [...] rowed himself across the river in his own ‘flattie’ to his hut among the mangroves.
at flattie, n.2
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 221: Not to-night, Kiddo. Cheer-oh!
at kiddo, n.
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 250: Every moll in the district knows Big Anton.
at moll, n.
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 223: If I had scabbed in Australia I wouldn’t live here. I’d go to a country where nobody would know me.
at scab, v.
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 23: Danil came out of the grove with his slasher and told his wife to ‘put up some tucker’.
at slasher, n.1
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 34: Muranivich swept his flat-brimmed swagger hat from his head.
at swagger, n.
[NZ] J. Devanny Paradise Flow 27: He’s a swinger, all right.
at swinger, n.1
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