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Gadfly (Adelaide, N.Z.) 12 Dec. 840/1: Drunk as forty, [...] and won’t come home till morning – if then.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Gadfly (Adelaide, N.Z.) 12 Dec. 840/1: Drunk as forty, [...] and won’t come home till morning – if then. Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Mar. 9/1: ‘Well, suddenly the commission agent goes broke over the Newmarket. “That puts the acid on him,” says I.’ / ‘The acid?’ I queried. / ‘Wipes him out,’ explained the sporty person. ‘You see, I had a bit of sugar – that’s money’ – he said it sarcastically – ‘so I was well in the running.’.at put the acid on (v.) under acid, n.2
Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Mar. The filly was just the agate – a boshter piece.at glassy (alley), the, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 11 July 6/2: I ’ereby moves that this inflooenshul and reprysentertive meetin’ decides ter oppose Sosherlism, sandbag and jemmy.at sandbag and jemmy, adv.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Nov. 809/1: ‘Here!’ said my brother one morning at breakfast, throwing some money across the table, in the take-it-I’ll-starve manner, affected by one’s male relatives when bestowing baksheesh.at baksheesh, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/1: Anyhow, me an’ ’im goes on a bit of a bender up in Wirapilla, where we’re workin’ on a sawmill.at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/1: He comes after me ’ell fer leather, an’ does a tumble over Mick ’oo’s layin’ dead to the world be the fowl-’ouse. ‘You’ll do,’ ses the John, an’ ’e ’umps Mick into ’is bird-cage, an’ Mick never knows wot struck ’im.at birdcage, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Mar. 9/1: I said I’d put his pot on, and so I up and told the filly about his finances. ‘He’s dead broke,’ says I. ‘He’s got a house,’ says she. ‘With a big blister,’ says I.’ / ‘A blister?’ I queried again. / ‘A mortgage, if you like,’ said the sportsman.at blister, n.1
Gadfly (Adelaide) 12 Dec. 842/1: ‘Grand weather?’ I remarked. / ‘It’s a bonzer!’ he answered, with enthusiasm.at bonzer, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 18 July 20/2: Shown over Boozington’s wine cellar in morning. Slept all afternoon. Bad headache when I woke up.at boozington, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/2: ‘Drunk an’ disturbin’ the peace, yer worship,’ says the slop, an’ then ’e gets into ’is kennel. I ain’t got no time fer p’licemen, any’ow; but this chap fair took the baker’s shop with blanky cuffers.at take the cake, v.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/1: Ain’t nothin’ doing’ [sic] ’cep’ in a little tin shanty they calls the Central Auction Mart, where a skinny little bloke is standin’ in a box sellin’ furnicher an’ things. I starts chuckin’ it up at ’im fer devilment, an’ ’e gets ropeable. Chucks ’is ’ammer at me fer a start; but I dodges it an’ gives ’im a bit more chiack.at chi-ike, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/1: Gets me on me back an’ the two of ’em starts bumpin’ me ’ead on the toepath. ’Twas no blanky picnic – take it frum me! An’ ’m just about chuckin’ me ace, when a John comes along, and whispers the little bloke with the ’ammer. ‘Oh, you leave ’im to me,’ says ’is nibs, ‘an’ I’ll give the scoundril all ’e wants.’.at chuck one’s ace (v.) under chuck, v.2
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/1: Ain’t nothin’ doing’ [sic] ’cep’ in a little tin shanty they calls the Central Auction Mart, where a skinny little bloke is standin’ in a box sellin’ furnicher an’ things. I starts chuckin’ it up at ’im fer devilment, an’ ’e gets ropeable.at chuck up at (v.) under chuck, v.2
Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Nov. 772/3: There is, for instance, ‘a certain person.’ I want to meet him. I also want to meat him – cold meat him. He is a low-down tattler and a backbiter and a slanderer and a liar.at cold meat, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/2: ‘Drunk an’ disturbin’ the peace, yer worship,’ says the slop, an’ then ’e gets into ’is kennel. I ain’t got no time fer p’licemen, any’ow; but this chap fair took the baker’s shop with blanky cuffers.at cuffer, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 18 July 18/2: On Saturday night, June 30, the local bung turned on the beer-tap for the last time, and the town on Sunday morning was a dead marines’ cemetery.at dead marine (n.) under dead, adj.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Mar. 9/1: ‘Well, the agent cove didn’t like it. My! He didn’t spring off her neck a bit! But the filly chucked him. He was a fair lizard.’ / He paused, evidently expecting me to query the ‘lizard,’ but I let it pass and he went on. / ‘So he was – a fair cow.’.at fair cow (n.) under fair, adj.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/3: But these ’ere up-country beaks ain’t got no bloomin’ sense uv fair do’s.at fair dos under fair, adj.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/1: Called ’im the Fluter ’count uv ’im yappin’. ’Struth! ’e could chin it a bit.at fluter, n.1
Gadfly (Adelaide) 28 Mar. 9/2: I was goin’ up ’Igh Street at three g.m. yesterd’y, yer Wershup, when I seen the pris’ner layin’ on ’is back on the footpath outside Central Auction Mart.at g.m., n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 5 Dec. 821/2: I christened ’im George Reid ’cos he’s a straight-goer. He’s as straight as a die, an’ a true frien’.at straight goer (n.) under goer, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 11 Apr. 18/2: If these are closed through the local-option movement, Rev. Boniface will have to turn the Church Office into a sly grog shanty, with Mrs. Nicholls serving the drinks with a seductive smile, and Harry Gainford keeping ‘nit’ for the police.at sly-grog, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 25 Apr. 20/4: ‘Wot ’ave I done?’ I asks, indignant. / ‘Never knew yer to ever do anythink,’ ’e replies, sarcastic. ‘But don’t git white ’eaded; I’m not torkin’ erbout that jus’ now.’.at white-headed, adj.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Mar. 9/2: ‘Are you going to play up a drip?’ he asked after a while. [...] ‘Hit up a round,’ he half explained. / ‘I don’t quite understand’ --- I began. / ‘Oh, come off,’ he said. ‘I mean, are you going to shout?’.at hit up, v.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 18 July 18/2: For the last month the bungs have been retailing all the hog-wash in the cellars. Some of them had to close at 9 o’clock, as the supply of wallop had petered out, such was the demand for a final skinful.at hogwash, n.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 2 May 9/3: Gipsy Smith was a second-rate bushranger, who Ned-Kellied on a small scale about Bendigo [AND].at Ned Kelly, v.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 21 Feb. 10/1: People who like to be knocked endwise with amazement should go along to Rickards’ Tivoli Theatre.at knock endways (v.) under knock, v.
Gadfly (Adelaide) 14 Feb. 5/2: [A] visiting American, who appears to know all about the game, opines that they are too mean. This shrewd voyager from the land of the wooden ham, of the ‘rake off,’ and the political ‘boss,’ declares that until the importers are ready to hand out large sums to establish huge campaign funds and buy their politicians, they can never hope to ‘rule the roost’ and gull the people of Australia.at land of the wooden hams (n.) under land, n.3
Gadfly (Adelaide) 25 Apr. 6/1: Well, this ’ere Sue made up ’er mind – / She fair made up her mind – / She’d wander on ’er lonely down to town, / All on ’er own, that is, alone.at on one’s lonely under lonely, adj.
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