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Jock of the Bushveld choose

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[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 198: He’s with a foreigner chap from Natal now. New chums are always roughest on the niggers.
at new chum, n.
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 299: Go-sh! – Da-ll! Cr-r-r-i-miny!
at criminy!, excl.
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 16: There was a kindliness and quick instinct of ‘fair doos’ which tempered the wind.
at fair dos under fair, adj.
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 16: ‘Johnny-come-lately’s got a lot to learn’ was held to be adequate reason for letting many a beginner buy his experience.
at johnny-come-lately (n.) under johnny, n.1
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 393: We had one round of drinks. [...] A few minutes later Seedling announced effusively that it was his ‘shout’.
at shout, n.
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 22: Tell us what did happen, Bob. What’s the truth of it? It seemed a bit steep as I heard it.
at steep, adj.
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 14: The Lydenburg Goldfields prospectors ‘humping their swags’ or driving their small pack-donkeys.
at hump one’s swag (v.) under swag, n.1
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 391: After breakfast we went to the store to ‘swop’ news with the men on the spot.
at swap, v.
[SA] P. Fitzpatrick Jock of the Bushveld 31: The questions sprung briskly, as only a ‘yapper’ puts them.
at yap, n.1
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