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Brown Man’s Burden choose

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[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 83: She mimicked, striking an attitude and rolling her eyes and finishing by poking out her long red tongue.
at attitude, n.
[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 82: You fix it up to marry Mary or by heaven! [...] I’le get my ole gun out and blow daylight through your head.
at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 16: She would rather have a Maori who was a real man than a half-pie Pakeha who talked too much.
at half-pie, adj.
[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 40: ‘A handle of beer,’ Mr Puttle was saying easily to the barman.
at handle, n.
[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 16: She would rather have a Maori who was a real man than a half-pie Pakeha who talked too much. [Ibid.] 18: I’ve found out just how rotten the Pakeha civilization is.
at P?keh?, n.
[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 30: But, by korry! the Maori these days likes better a good jazz band. [Ibid.] 31: Py korry, another party!
at py korry!, excl.
[NZ] R. Finlayson Brown Man’s Burden 3: All the friends and relatives of both families were jubilant at the announcement [...] the occasion for a tangi had arisen.
at tangi, n.
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