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[Aus] J. Harvey ‘East Wind on Sunday’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 19: Gee, what a boomer! That’s my size!
at boomer, n.1
[Aus] F.B. Vickers ‘The Pommies Club’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 31: Ah, Birmingham. Dear old Brum.
at Brum, n.
[Aus] F.B. Vickers ‘The Pommies Club’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 29: Tough tucker, old boy. Puts hair on your chest. It’s the tucker to build an Empire on.
at put hair(s) on one’s chest (v.) under hair on one’s chest, n.
[Aus] G.M. Glaskin ‘See You in the Morning’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 58: You’ll get ‘private’, you bastard, when you get on civvy street.
at civvie street (n.) under civvie, adj.
[Aus] J. Harvey ‘East Wind on Sunday’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 13: An unpleasant, noisy, rowdy larrikin wind.
at larrikin, n.
[Aus] F.B. Vickers ‘The Pommies Club’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 30: He was a neat and lean man, short, and natty as a new pin.
at natty, adj.
[Aus] J. Harvey ‘East Wind on Sunday’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories (1959) 18: [of a wave] She’s big [...] She’s a screamer.
at screamer, n.
[Aus] M. Brown ‘Wheelbarrow and the Whirlwind’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories 136: Enough talk—we’ll give it a burl.
at give it a burl (v.) under burl, n.
[Aus] H.H. Wilson ‘Kedi’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories 191: A man’s a fool to sweat his guts out drilling for oil in that hell’s country.
at sweat one’s guts out (v.) under gut, n.
[Aus] M. Brown ‘Wheelbarrow and the Whirlwind’ in Drake-Brockman West Coast Stories 138: He swallowed a whole bottle of happiness pills.
at happy pill (n.) under happy, adj.
[Aus] H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west ladies’ West Coast Stories 160: The chap was a hatter—he started looping the loop.
at hatter, n.1
[Aus] H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west Ladies’ West Coast Stories 161: Alf wasn’t much of a man for a high-stepper like Mrs. Giblit.
at high-stepper, n.1
[Aus] H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west Ladies’ West Coast Stories 157: What about Matron? She’s been the real Mackay, in her day.
at real McCoy, the, n.
[Aus] H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west ladies’ West Coast Stories 157: Flat-chested old sticky-beaking romancer, that’s what she is!
at stickybeak, v.
[Aus] H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west Ladies’ West Coast Stories 158: Those old tabbies!
at tabby, n.
[Aus] H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west Ladies’ West Coast Stories 160: It is a bit thick to swallow, isn’t it?
at thick, adj.
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