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All That Swagger choose

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[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 108: A large boot padded with cloth – the Prince Alberts of the derelicts.
at Prince Alberts, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 154: Billy was eager to follow Fullwood to Hell or Hay in order ‘to belt the stuffin’ outer the ole – morepork’.
at Hay (and) Hell and Booligal, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 249: He’s too much of an out-and-outer for that.
at out-and-outer, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 262: Every Tom and Dick make there to camp.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 322: Aunt Della and Uncle Ned were as happy as Larry.
at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 233: It’s manny an ass-load of foolishness has assailed me ears, and manny the heart-scald since I married ye.
at assload (n.) under ass, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 388: If we flew to Aussie together, we’d have to get married.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 55: He took to an outsize in straw wide-awakes that year and filled it with the cool leaves of the peppermint.
at wide-awake, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 394: In my young days it was the bosom that was upholstered to the shape of a plum pudding [...] And to-day it is the b-t-m.
at b.t.m., n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 62: She was set to cook a meal while the men were bailed-up until disarmed and relieved of valuables.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 232: There’s no call to bally-rag me to such an extent.
at ballyrag, v.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 322: Don’t be batty – it’s not much over two years.
at batty, adj.1
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 82: I’ve never seen the beat of him.
at beat, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 1790: Be japers, ye hurrt her proide.
at bejabers!, excl.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 76: Before he was eight Harry could swim like a binghi.
at binghi, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 84: ‘Ye’ra black-jack and tobacco kag combined, and I have no taste for sleeping with such.’ [...] ‘I’m an old tobacco kag and a rum jar,’ he murmured.
at black jack, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s ) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 120: There are too many young blades in the running.
at blade, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 327: But those facts can’t be blinked.
at blink, v.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 394: Adrienne was no blob or a woop-woop.
at blob, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 134: She dined at the public table to inspect the squatters who blew in on the way from Riverina.
at blow in, v.2
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 143: And ye to be tigrinizing about after Hennessy’s by-blow – no father and mother!
at by-blow, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 185: Mrs Urquart was free to enjoy Bella and to wonder why she had thrown herself away on bob-tailed old James.
at bobtail, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 181: He was a convict. An ignorant bog-trotting Irishman – an innkeeper!
at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 2: At any rate, among the whole boiling of Delacys was never a Kevin, a Patrick, nor an Aloysius. [Ibid.] 148: Whatever she was, he thought her worth a whole boiling of Fullwoods.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 148: ‘What a boomer!’ burst from Robert.
at boomer, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 121: A hint without evidence is a snake in the grass, like that boomer you dispatched to-day at the lickhole.
at boomer, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 395: The old bungs are very proud of my cousin.
at boong, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 282: Such a botheration!
at botheration, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 13: The clouds of flies [...] and the heat distressed her. A ‘brickfielder’ frightened and prostrated her.
at brickfielder (n.) under brick, n.
[Aus] (con. 1830s–60s) M. Franklin All That Swagger 33: [of an Aborigine] I’ve seen them shoot down many a fine buck on the north coast [...] They do be saying they’re not human, but only animals.
at buck, n.1
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