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In Roaring Fifties 151: They’ve got Brummy the Nut there. [...] Brummy is a lag who had all the sensibilities battered out of him in the quarries.at Brummy, n.
In Roaring Fifties 151: They’ve got Brummy the Nut there. [...] Brummy is a lag who had all the sensibilities battered out of him in the quarries. In Roaring Fifties 188: She got a quart and I cabbaged half for my tea-party.at cabbage, v.1
In Roaring Fifties 170: By the Lord Harry, they’ve nabbed him!at by the Lord Harry! (excl.) under Lord Harry, n.
In Roaring Fifties 168: ‘What’s the matter with him?’ ‘Only a touch o’ the jims. He’s liable to howl a bit now ’n again.’.at jims, n.
In Roaring Fifties 119: The air resounded with the yells of the miners, raised in warning and derision. ‘Jo! – Jo! – Jo!’.at joe, n.1
In Roaring Fifties 108: Jo! was the favourite epithet hurled at the troopers and all representatives of constituted authority.at joe, n.1
In Roaring Fifties 170: Must ’a’ taken us for a pair o’ Johnnie-come latelies.at johnny-come-lately (n.) under johnny, n.1
In Roaring Fifties 66: Jim was asked by several strangers [...] ‘Does your mother know you’re out?’.at does your mother know you’re out? under mother, n.
Roaring Fifties cap. vii: ‘My colonial, you sprint like an emu!’ gasped the latter [Ibid.] cap. xiii: Con uttered a corroborative ‘My colonial oath!’ that was eloquent of a grateful heart.at my oath!, excl.
Roaring Fifties [ebook] ‘He’s been like that as long as I’ve known him, and I met him first on the Liverpool Plains in New South twenty years ago,’ said Martin Cargill.at New South, n.
In Roaring Fifties 66: ‘Pea-souper!’ trumpeted a horseman through his hands. There were sarcastic references to ‘lime juice.’ [Ibid.] 68: They’ve been hazing you properly, mate. Pea-soupers and lime juicers are strangers off shipboard.at peasouper, n.
In Roaring Fifties 167: Fact is, the dad goes on a tear now ’n again, an’ we pen him up to sober him off.at go (out) on a/the tear (v.) under tear, n.
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