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[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 139: Oh, bag your blasted head.
at bag your head! (excl.) under bag, v.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 99: I had a snooze, and now I’m full of oats.
at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 79: Lord Thingamy [...] was rather blotto.
at blotto, adj.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 35: Look at that gink over there. Isn’t he a cut!
at cut-up, n.1
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 215: I knew it was a fairy story.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 218: You let slip your chance to bring him a gutser!
at gutser, n.2
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 154: Don’t get your hair off, old man; I’m sorry your holiday has been spoiled. [Ibid.] 169: She really got her wool off.
at get one’s hair off (v.) under hair, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 218: The only thing that matters a hoot [...] is what you and Lucy think about it.
at hoot, n.2
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 94: Willie was too intoxicated by this display of affection to see that she also nobbled his drink.
at nobble, v.2
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 153: Come for me again if you want an off-sider. I’m sorry I don’t know much about nursing.
at offsider, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 60: You’d better not let any one hear you talking like that here [...] it’s looked upon as red-raggism.
at red raggism (n.) under red rag, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 168: She gave me a sollicker of a dose out of a blue bottle.
at sollicker, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 79: Lord Thingamy [...] was rather blotto.
at thingummy, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 50: Togo’s slender body, clad solely in a pair of flesh-coloured vees.
at vees, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 73: Don’t be such a woop.
at woop, n.
[Aus] Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 87: His vast ziff.
at ziff, n.2
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