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[Aus] F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 92: I was sleeping on a canvas covered stretcher which I procured at the Alice .
at Alice, The, n.
[Aus] F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 5: These infernal flies after repeated attempts succeed in bunging one of my eyes. The first bunged eye I have ever had.
at bunged up, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 5: A friend of my youth Jacky Brown called upon us [...] I was delighted to see him; later on some more men turned up: we gave them a good feed and after [...] rigged the phonograph up and got them to sing into it a number of corroboree songs.
at jacky jacky, n.
[Aus] F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 5: We must get some staunch heavy horses, the six hired from Maronsen are rank jibs.
at jibber, n.
[Aus] F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 303: The letter is carried securely tied in a cleft stick which is the usual method of conveying paper yabbers.
at paper yabber (n.) under paper, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 193: There is something very attractive about black piccaninnies.
at piccaninny, n.
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