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Missing Link 🌐 Ch. iii: A feature of Nickie’s very humorous and original impersonation of the Yarra-banker was his waggish begging.at Yarra banker, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. iii: A feature of Nickie’s very humorous and original impersonation of the Yarra-banker was his waggish begging. Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xii: Get through at a good bat, and they won’t have time to look twice at the man-monkey before it’s all over.at bat, n.3
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. i: The familiars of Mr. Nicholas Crips were [...] all ‘beats,’ that is to say, gentlemen sitting on the rail dividing honest toil from open crime.at beat, n.3
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. i: In this latter billet [i.e. undertaking] he had to keep his hair dyed a presentable black.at billet, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. viii: You have the heart to insult a
Christian thirst with water on a day like this, you blastiferous heathen!at blastiferous, adj.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. i: You’re in fer it all right, blokie.at bloke, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. iv: These young men must be divorced from the long-sleever, and rescued from [...] the blandishments of Bung, the reprobate who runs the pub.at bung, n.2
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xviii: Annie, the Cockie’s daughter, whom he had left at the slip-rails.at cocky, n.2
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. x: He dragged to the
ground a heroic Cousin Jack miner who was climbing the verandah post.at Cousin Jack, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. ii: You could alwiz put on dog. You sold flathead, Jinny, but I give the devil his due – you did it like a duchess.at put on (the) dog (v.) under dog, n.2
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xiv: The tale of Dutchy Schmitz howling mad in the hotel, while a great, hairy, hideous jim-jam capered on the floor before him.at Dutchy, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xiii: He passed quite easily for a dramatic artist taking rest and change to dissipate brain fag, the result of too studious application to his art.at brain fag (n.) under fag, n.2
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xv: Good enough. There’s no ticks on you, you’re a stoodent, I can see.at no flies on..., phr.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. iii: By Jo-o-ve! [...] that’s a stunnin’ make-up, old chap—what? Nevah saw a bettah, by gad.at gad, n.1
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. vii: ‘Well, how’re yeh likin’ th’ grip, Nickie?’ [...] ‘It is not exacting.’ said the Missing Link.at grip, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xvi: The Missing Link took a good, long pull, and in less than half a minute was [...] dead to the world, a thoroughly hocussed man-monkey.at hocus, v.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xiv: The tale of Dutchy Schmitz howling mad in the hotel, while a great, hairy, hideous jim-jam capered on the floor before him.at jim-jams, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xv: Well I’m jiggered [...] I could have sworn he was a fake.at I’ll be jiggered! (excl.) under jigger, v.3
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. ii: What price his nibs in the noble belltopper mentionin’ it t’ th’ Johns, an’ gettin’ you seven days fer disgustin’ behaviour?at john, n.1
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. i: His Christian name was Nicholas but his familiars called him Nickie the Kid. [...] Kid was short for ‘kidder’.at kid, n.2
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xi: The first of you, man, woman or child, that stirs a finger or utters a yelp gets lead poisonin’.at lead poisoning (n.) under lead, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. iv: These young men must be divorced from the long-sleever, and rescued from the lures of the plump, peroxided barmaid.at long-sleever (n.) under long, adj.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xiii: Well, yiv gotter look out, ol’ man. If she nails yer, yer a gone link, that’s er cert.at nail, v.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. viii: Do a perish here from thirst while that cow of a man swills his fill [...] No, hanged if I do.at do a perish (v.) under perish, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. iv: They must be turned from the joys of the ‘pushes,’ tobacco chewing, and stoushing inoffensive Chinamen with bricks.at push, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xviii: Where’d my livin’ be? The Professor ud give me the run.at give someone the run (v.) under run, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. 16: You can’t send a bloke up on th’ say so of a Missin’ Link.at send up (v.) under send, v.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. vi: That was the third time he’d gone on th’ spree, an’ ther Perfesser ’ad warned him if it ’appened again he’d get the shoot.at get the shoot (v.) under shoot, n.
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. i: Kid was short for ‘kidder,’ a term that has gone out recently in favour of ‘smoodger,’ and which implies a quality of suave and ingratiating cunning backed by ulterior motives.at smoodger, n.
Missing Link Ch. vi 🌐 Professor Thunder was his own ‘spruicher;’ his eloquence was remarkable.at spruiker, n.
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