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The Cherry Pickers choose

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[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: Yeah. O.K., sexy as all git-out.
at all get out, phr.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: It’s just another one of them white blokes [...] lookin’ for black velvet!
at black velvet (n.) under black, adj.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers II i: I’ll bust you ya little bludger!
at bludger, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: You watch yer mouth or I’ll bottle ya!
at bottle, v.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: None of yer racial comment ’ere in my company luv. [...] We’s all the same. Even the Chings!
at ching, n.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: You’se both racists! Emma calls chows ‘Chings’.
at Chow, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: [spoken by Aborigine] Well, ya ain’t gonna be able to afford to buy it this season, darky boy.
at darkie, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: I was a digger in the Great War — I did fight for my country.
at digger, n.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: How’s yer ditty [...] How’s ya knackers?
at ditty, n.2
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers II i: I’ll give yer all the fight yer want, ya derty little lump of dogshit!
at dogshit, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: I get on O.K. in my rightful role as your gin and your wife.
at gin, n.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: I ate nothing — you greedy gutted little thing! [...] You always steal me bit of damper an’ that you greedy guts gerl!
at greedy-gut, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: I ate nothing — you greedy gutted little thing! [...] You always steal me bit of damper an’ that you greedy guts gerl!
at greedy-gut, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: It’s the gunjiwarngs! The gunjis are comin’. Gunjiwarns—gunjiwarngs!!!
at gunji, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: Ya skoljeed the lot—you guts!
at gut, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: I’m sick o’ guzzlin’ [...] home-made plonk.
at guzzle, v.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: We’re all of us gittin’ too ‘hairy’ with each other because things don’t look good.
at hairy, adj.4
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: (Grabs at toodle’s crotch) How’s ya bunions? [...] How’s yer knackers?
at knackers, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: By the livin’ Jesus I’m gunna die as a man!
at living, adj.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III ii: (Grabs at toodle’s crotch) How’s ya bunions? [...] How’s yer knackers?
at onion, n.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: And where is God Zeena? Why doesn’t He stop the filthy sell-out of humans?
at sell-out, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: You’re all a lot of superstitious old pisspots!
at pisspot, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers II i: Gawd. It pongs, mate!
at pong, v.2
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: We are far from home and completely rooted — fucked — finished!!!!
at rooted, adj.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: You watch yer mouth or I’ll bottle ya! You only a snot-arse to me boy!
at snot-arse (n.) under snot, n.1
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers II i: Them doctors an’ nurses knew what was happenin’ about my babies—but they blamed me. They couldn’t give a stuff.
at not give a stuff (v.) under stuff, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: No wonder that them fellahs all reckon ‘black velvet’ is hot — stuff!
at velvet, n.
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