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Squattermania, or, Phases of Antipodean Life choose

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[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 60: Boodgery feller, you Jack, give it poor black feller nobbler.
at budgery, adj.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 242: The General was a caution, and no mistake.
at caution, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 27: Not one has got a chimney-pot on his head.
at chimney-pot (hat) (n.) under chimney, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 44: ‘What do you call a cockatoo?’ ‘A man that lives on a little bit of ground,’ replied Barney.
at cockatoo, n.2
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 296: The cockatooing has been a failure so far [...] and both of us are getting short of cash.
at cockatoo, v.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 243: They sat down and bolted their tucker, growlin’ the same as usual; but cookey took it all quiet.
at cookee, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 61: It’s a quiet little place [...] with a good many Derwenters in it (ticket-of-leave men from Tasmania); they are generally called old hands out here.
at derwenter, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 244: ‘Well, isn’t the news absolutely stunning?’ said Sutton. ‘It is, my boy [...] a regular knock-down, in fact.’.
at knock-down, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 47: ‘Are you going to shout, Billy? [...] why, I thought you’d drunk your cheque out long ago.’ ‘No, my boys,’ said Billy; ‘I haven’t knocked it all down yet.’.
at knock down, v.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 35: I’ll bet a quid he’s never been properly broken in.
at quid, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 250: ‘I don’t want anything, thank you,’ replied Sutton. ‘Don’t take the tile off the roof, mate,’ said one of the loafers.
at take the tile(s) off (v.) under tile, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 272: I see her get out of a hansom cab, in the werry best of togs.
at togs, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 272: I kept my eyes about, in hopes of twigging her; and one day I see her get out of a hansom cab.
at twig, v.2
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 281: ‘I only want to give yer a whackin’,’ said Brown making another dart at him.
at whacking, n.
[Aus] ‘Erro’ Squattermania 243: How did they manage the Murrumbidgee whalers, as they call them, where you were?
at whaler, n.2
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