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[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 280: Gone wrong! My hairy aunt, you ask has anything gone wrong?
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 99: Cawfee, baby’s head small, boiled, no veg, two thick ’uns.
at baby’s head (n.) under baby, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 44: Ain’t he a hard case, him and his ruddy barnacles.
at barnacles, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 61: I’ll knock seven bells out of the bushy-whiskered, mouldy-headed, biscuit-eating old stiff.
at biscuit-eater (n.) under biscuit, n.1
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs frontispiece: A ‘Blown-In-The-Glass’ Friend.
at blown-in-the-glass, adj.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 61: A number of bum-boats came out to us.
at bum-boat, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 99: Cawfee, baby’s head small, boiled, no veg, two thick ’uns [...] boiled potatoes and two thick slices of bread and butter were placed before him.
at boiled, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 226: He was most tickled with the one that informed the boss that the front at Cliftonville was ‘lousy with Jew boys’.
at Jew boy, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 154: Half of them went natural bug-house [...] but the rest of ’em went religious bug-house.
at go bughouse (v.) under bughouse, adj.1
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 251: The crowd [...] at once assembled to watch the ‘chawing up’.
at chaw, v.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 291: Old Fergy is chock-a-block with religion.
at chockablock, adj.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 84: Don’t go in there, chummy.
at chum, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 216: And when we’re both in jail it will be you, you clam, who [...].
at clam, n.1
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 230: I sure did have a wonderful click at Margate. [Ibid.] 298: Kip and grub on the scale of the last year were secure for many months. For years I could live the life of a stiff who has clicked.
at click, n.4
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 300: My brain took fast hold of that ‘go low’ and played a devil’s tattoo with the phrase.
at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 61: You vant dirty poss card?
at dirty, adj.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 227: And you’ll eat dirt yet.
at eat dirt (v.) under eat, v.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 59: What sort of work do you call that [...] you ... egg-sucker?
at egg-sucker, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 20: Garn, four eyes!
at four-eyes, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 230: There is a nice fat ten-pound note.
at fat, adj.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 146: It was my first flare-up.
at flare-up, n.1
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 218: Great jumping apostles!
at great jumping...!, excl.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 232: Great snuffboxes, was you there? [Ibid.] 250: ‘Great thundering snakes!’ yelled Cherry.
at great guns! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 95: Now, sonny, keep your hair on.
at keep your hair on! (excl.) under keep one’s hair on, v.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 241: It was a hairy ride.
at hairy, adj.2
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 175: I leapt in with a real hairy idea.
at hairy, adj.2
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 180: Cherry declared that if he had been a bit ‘hairy’ years ago, for the last five years he had lived a blameless life.
at hairy, adj.2
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 108: A proportion of the inhabitants of the House consisted of casual lodgers.
at house, n.1
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 37: To earn five shillings per diem I must sell two hundred of these jim-jams.
at jim-jam, n.
[Aus] M. Garahan Stiffs 19: Just fancy the man at the wheel wearing glasses! What a Jonah!
at jonah, n.
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