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Benno and Some of the Push choose

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[Aus] E. Dyson ‘On a Bender’ in Benno and Some of the Push 80: That ginger pot-polisher’s bin through all the blood-’ouses in town, ’n’ she’s a tough, a fair halligator.
at alligator, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Picnic’ in Benno and Some of the Push 4: ‘Out with it, Benno, who’s yer cuddle?’ said Feathers.
at cuddle and kiss, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Barracking’ in Benno and Some of the Push 146: ‘Buck in, Sus---’ sez he, stuck there, with his north-’n’-south wide open, his eyes fair glarin’.
at north (and south), n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Truculent Boy’ in Benno and Some of the Push 54: But Mr Goudy did not report the boy. He knew the Beauties were disposed to be resentful to a ‘put-away’.
at put-away, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Barracking’ in Benno and Some of the Push 144: Fair in the balloon, good enough for him! That’s the way to tease ’em, the blighters!
at balloon, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Disposal of a Dog’ in Benno and Some of the Push 132: ‘’Ello, Ned! Gettin’ ’ome with the week’s meat?’ roared a hardened barracker.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Big Spoof’ in Benno and Some of the Push 213: He kicks me fair in the basket, he gives me the boot hard in the bag.
at basket, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Rivals’ Benno and Some of the Push 161: ‘What-o, Billy-be-dam’d, are you it?’ said the packer.
at Billy-be-damned, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Rivals’ in Benno and Some of the Push 151: From the fact that all her dresses were coffee-coloured, the Beauties rashly concluded that her grandmother was a ‘Beardie,’ a brown sect closely allied to Quakers.
at beardie, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘On a Bender’ in Benno and Some of the Push 85: So our Mr. Dickson went t’ beddy-by on a soft board lars night.
at beddy-bye, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Truculent Boy’ in Benno and Some of the Push 57: His battered bell-topper floated in the lye tub below.
at bell-topper (n.) under bell, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘At the Opera’ Benno and Some of the Push 94: ‘It’s a bilk,’ he said. ‘This ain’t no play. The cows ’re makin’ it up ez they go along.’.
at bilk, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘At a Boxing Bout’ in Benno and Some of the Push 120: He’ll just pelt ’em inter Rocker’s biscuit barrel, ’n’ slide out every time the ’eavyweight offers t’ pass ’im one.
at biscuit barrel (n.) under biscuit, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce’ in Benno and Some of the Push 35: I sez, ‘’Ow are yeh!’ I sez. ‘It’s a bit iv good goods ’ere t’-night, ain’t it?’.
at bit of goods, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce’ in Benno and Some of the Push 41: Bring erlong Jumbo someone, ’n’ we’ll blessed soon clear up this gazob.
at blessed, adv.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘At the Opera’ in Benno and Some of the Push 92: ‘You blighted ass, they’ll fire you out in half a tick, and serve you good,’ said the man on his right.
at blighted, adj.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Fickle Dolly Hopgood’ in Benno and Some of the Push 63: ‘What,’ cried the packer, ‘has she given yeh brusher?’ Clinker wagged his round head confidently. ‘No blinded fear,’ he said.
at blind, adj.2
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘On a Bender’ in Benno and Some of the Push 80: That ginger pot-polisher’s bin through all the blood-’ouses in town.
at blood house (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Nicholas Don and the Meek Almira’ Benno and Some of the Push 31: ‘’Struth!’ he gasped. ‘I do like that. Swelp me Jimmy Gee, I do like that!’.
at s’elp me bob!, excl.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘At the Opera’ in Benno and Some of the Push 88: ‘That’s bon tosh,’ said Cilly, with enthusiasm.
at bon tosh, adj.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Barracking’ in Benno and Some of the Push 144: ‘Oh, a bonzer, a bonzer, a boshter, a bontoshter!’ screamed our Christian brother.
at bontosher, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Barracking’ in Benno and Some of the Push 140: Loud ’n’ large opinions t’ th’ effect that St. Kilda is the dazzlin’ P., the bonzers, the boshters, the pink, the pride, ’n’ the pick iv th’ earth. [Ibid.] ‘Benno, yer a fair bonza!’.
at bonzer, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Truculent Boy’ in Benno and Some of the Push 48: D’jer know me ’n’ Nip’s goin’ t’ run a circus? [...] It’ll be a boshter, too.
at boshter, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce’ in Benno and Some of the Push 39: Somebody knocked his boxer from its peg, and walked in it.
at boxer, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce’ in Benno and Some of the Push 33: Mr. Dickson, mindful of the ignominy due to the man who gets ‘brusher’, thought he was combining air indifference.
at get brusher (v.) under brusher, n.4
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘An Amorous Boy’ in Benno and Some of the Push 175: A stinker boy’s a bub et school what won’t fight nothin’, smooges t’ the teachers, narks everythin’, ’n’s clean an’ pretty alwiz.
at bub, n.3
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘An Amorous Boy’ Benno and Some of the Push 180: Youter be shot, a pair iv buck larrikins slingin’ off at a bit iv a kid.
at buck, adj.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Disposal of a Dog’ in Benno and Some of the Push 137: ‘It’s no use buckin’ up, Benno,’ said the Don. ‘I wasn’t responsible fer me actions.’.
at buck up, v.2
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce’ in Benno and Some of the Push 33: At Stonkie’s picnic she had passed him over in favour of Billy Crib, the butter bumper.
at bumper, n.5
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘At a Boxing Bout’ in Benno and Some of the Push 116: ‘O’Brien ’ll out ‘im this round [...Scorcher’ll go t’bunk, you take it frim the prefessor.’.
at go to bunk (v.) under bunk, n.2
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