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[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA) 1 Oct. 3/7: He could not catch the words used, be only noticed they related to the union. [...] Witness did not bear the words ‘a Scabby b—d’ used, nor did he hear anyone say ‘We are not going to do 14 days over that b—d for nothing’.
at scabby, adj.2
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (Aus.) 6 Sept. 4/3: East were as ‘stiff as a crutch’ to lose, as they had the best of things in the last quarter.
at stiff as a crutch (adj.) under stiff, adj.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA_ 27 Feb. 4/1: Blackwoods, having first strike, smacked up 138 for four wickets, and declared.
at smack up, v.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA) 11 May 4/2: [poem title] The Cow Cocky.
at cocky, n.2
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA) 11 May 4/2: Starve the lizards! The moaning cows, they bawl from morn ’til night.
at starve the lizards! (excl.) under starve the...!, excl.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA) 21 Jan. 5/2: No doubt it would be very nice if the Council could ‘meet in committee’ - as a radio artist put it: ‘Whacko the diddle oh’ .
at whacko the diddle-oh, adj.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser 4 Oct. 4/3: This is not the first time sich little incidents have occurred in the history of cockydom.
at cockydom (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (Aus.) 15 Jan. 4/2: A couple of young bloods double-dinking on a ramshackle grid.
at dink, v.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (Aus.) 15 Jan. 4/2: A couple of young bloods double-dinking on a ramshackle grid.
at grid, n.1
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (Aus.) 23 Sept. 14/3: Chinky, who could have passed for a Chinese almost anywhere.
at Chinky, n.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA) 8 Mar. 3/1: Sydney, returns the compliment by speaking of the sacred Yarra as ‘Smellbourne's sewer’.
at Smellbourne, n.
[Aus] Albany Advertiser (WA) 26 Sept. 3/3: To make it undrinkable it is treated with an adulterant, but the Yanks found that this could be removed by filtering the ‘alky’ as they called it, through a loaf of bread.
at alky, n.
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