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[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. 30 🌐 Does the Lord hang a feller for makin’ an Aunt Sally of another feller, an’ laughin’ in his sleeve.
at Aunt Sally, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 Moses went an’ barracked with this Parryo [i.e., Pharaoh] to let the Children go.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance Ch. 38 🌐 But I was askin’ you if your mates is follerin’ them gallus-birds up?
at gallows-bird, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxx: 🌐 Tried to buck up to another girl, purpose to vex Nora.
at buck up to, v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 Clever, edicated gurls doesn’t believe in a (adj.) walk-over. They want a bit o’ bullyraggin’.
at bullyrag, v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxv: 🌐 Both you an’ him’s the clean spud, anyhow, bullocky [...] If everybody was like me an’ him an’ you, the world would be fit for a man to live in.
at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxxviii: 🌐 Gosh, ain’t he a man of a thousand. He didn’t come down with the las’ rain.
at come down in the last shower (of rain) (v.) under come, v.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 ‘Rats!’ says Parryo [i.e. Pharaoh] . ‘Gorstruth!’ says he, ‘did you think you’d come Paddy over me? Won’t wash no (adj.) road.’.
at come the Paddy (v.) under come the..., v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 I told her three Cousin Jacks manhandled me in the (adj.) township.
at Cousin Jack, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxx: 🌐 Ain’t the law a (adj.) sight unfairer every way nor the cronkest gamblin’?
at cronk, adj.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 Strikes me, you’re the person that’s in the (adj.) crush.
at in the crush under crush, n.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) 🌐 Ch. viii: All in favour o’ this dart will please signify the same in the usual manner.
at dart, n.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 The foolishest bloke He could find to take on such a (adv.) dead-horse racket as gettin’ the Jews out o’ this perdicament.
at dead horse, n.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxiii: 🌐 While he was endeavoring to give some account of himself to the Bench various members of the Devil’s Brigade put in clients’ claims, amounting in the aggregate to something like £600.
at devil’s brigade (n.) under devil, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxii: 🌐 Rigby’s always correct in his dic., no matter how rotten his arguments are.
at dic, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxxviii: 🌐 You look’s as if you was gone on her? Can’t blame you — fact, I give you credit. She’s a ding-donger.
at dingdonger, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. iii: 🌐 When I first knew him he seemed such an ideal Down-Easter.
at Down-easter, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xvii: 🌐 Might draw it a bit milder [...] Ain’t hardly fair to allow that any of our (adj.) posterity was ever hanged.
at draw it mild, v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 ‘Do the other (adj.) thing, then,’ says I, gammonin’ to fire up.
at fire up, v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiii: 🌐 You’ll meet your antithetical affinity yet – some woman [who] will fill the goblet of life with a delectable fizzer.
at fizzer, n.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 Fair chased with every (adj.) description o’ slants, an’ never froze on to one o’ them.
at freeze (on) to (v.) under freeze, v.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. vii: 🌐 Just set down an’ wire in [...] Soda bread, an’ bacon, an’ honey, ad (adj.) libitum.
at wire in, v.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 ‘Hold on,’ says the Jews. ‘We’re on the (adj.) job. We’ll go an’ possess the land.’.
at on the job under job, n.2
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxx: 🌐 I was edicated up to the knocker before ever I seen Nora.
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 I drops like a cock, jumps up agen, an’ goes for him like lemons.
at lemons, adv.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 He gits home on the butt o’ the log this time. I drops agen, an’ rolls under the (adj.) billiard table.
at log, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xii: 🌐 Full loaded both ways every trip, and me grabbing the monish till I could feel my nose growing big and hooked, and my eyes taking the appearance of black beads.
at monish, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 To (sheol) with you an’ yer (adj.) Land o’ Canaan, you blatherin’ morepoke.
at mopoke, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxx: 🌐 An’ people ain’t such mullock-brained, flamin’ ijiots as to say God bosses that.
at mullock-brained (adj.) under mullock, n.
[Aus] J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. viii: 🌐 They got to go back into the Wilderness of Sin an’ do another perisher.
at go in a perisher (v.) under perisher, n.1
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