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[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 28 Oct. 3/2: [headline] The Double-Distilled; or Procession Extraordinary.
at double-distilled (adj.) under double, adj.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 29 Sept. 3/4: A swell drew out his thimble [...] together with a few casers [AND].
at caser, n.1
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 22 Dec. 4/2: The arrival of some constables [...] relieved his unlucky ‘frontispiece’ from any further violence.
at frontispiece, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 22 Dec. 4/2: The glass being emptied , ti must of course be replenished [...] and so they went on [...] until they were pretty well saturated.
at saturated, adj.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 22 Dec. 4/2: Mr D. proposed that they should try a friendly hit at each other, and that he who got the worst of it should pay the ‘shot’.
at shot, n.1
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 26 Apr. 3/2: [S]o, waiting [...] to but little purpose, the disappointed gentleman was even fain to discharge the contents of his ‘barking-irons’ on empty air.
at barking iron, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 17 May 2/3: A dozen or two holy dollars were left to them for their consolation.
at holy dollar (n.) under holy, adj.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 24 June 4/1: Cookey came home much ‘tossicated in regard of the liquor;’ he appeared rather amorously inclined.
at tossicated, adj.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 19 Oct. 4/2: I had been out for twelve days [...] along the rough coast of Americas too, in a little ‘bitch’ of a sloop.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: Jack Kable swears he’ll ‘fight any thing alive’ for a purse of 500l.; and the Windsor ‘blades’ and his cousin ‘jarmins,’ are willing to post the ‘blunt’ instanter.
at blade, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: Jack Kable swears he’ll ‘fight any thing alive’ for a purse of 500l.; and the Windsor ‘blades’ and his cousin ‘jarmins,’ are willing to post the ‘blunt’ instanter.
at blunt, n.1
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: Many a Sydney ‘swell’ and a Windsor ‘blade‘ and a ‘busher‘ [...] showed off their several ‘gustos’ in cut and come again.
at busher, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: Jack Kable swears he’ll ‘fight any thing alive’ for a purse of 500l. [...] There has been much ’chaffing’ in consequence.
at chaffing, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: [T]he report is current of a ‘game chicken’ — a hardy, chubby [...] Scot, ‘frae land of cakes and Johnny Groat’s’.
at chicken, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: Lots of blunt flew about [...] and a good sdeal of chaffing among the ‘corn stalks’ and the ‘townies‘.
at cornstalk, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: The fire of intrepidity glanced from their ‘daylights’.
at daylights, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 14 Feb. 4/3: We have lately been regaled with a numerous importation of care-killing jolly dogs of government civilians.
at jolly dog, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: [T]he challenge from Kable, alias ‘the Knight of the Fancy,’ to fight men of all sorts and sizes.
at Fancy, the, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: It was called a good ‘floorer’. The friends of Glew seemed to breathe again, but no ‘funking’ on the other side.
at funk, v.2
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: News of this long since anticipated ‘turn-up’ being chalked down as a ‘dead cetrainty’ [...] set the Sydney ‘kiddies’ on their pivots.
at kiddy, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: They blew out their ‘kites’ with the best of liquids and solids.
at kite, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: Each gentle and simple flat and knowing ’un.
at knowing, adj.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: [T]he report is current of a ‘game chicken’ — a hardy, chubby [...] Scot, ‘frae land of cakes and Johnny Groat’s’.
at land o’ cakes (n.) under land, n.3
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 July 4/2: [T]he ‘milling coves’ are likely to enjoy warm work this cool weather.
at milling-cove (n.) under milling, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 4 July 3/3: Many a ‘cove’ that would not, or could not raise the wind, toddled it on ‘shanks mare’.
at shanks’s pony, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 13 Feb. 3/4: [N]othing, in fact, being a surer sign of want of true game, than raising a squeak about any theft whatever.
at squeak, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 29 Feb. 2/3: One feature in The Australian is a great drawback [...] we allude to the ‘Tom and Jerry’ slang of the Police Reports.
at tom and jerry, adj.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 13 Feb. 3/4: Being such an expert thief, that he would be able to live like a gentleman when he reached Botany [Bay], by his dexterity in the cross-trade.
at cross-trade (n.) under cross, n.1
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 11 Apr. 3/3: He was all of a sudden trapped, become the handcuffed protege of a constable, and conveyed ashore; but taking an opportunity of [...] slipping his wrists out of handcuffs, he also slipped from his escort, leaving no bail but leg bail for his re-appearance.
at leg bail (n.) under leg, n.
[Aus] Australian (Sydney) 12 May 3/5: The constable took him in tow and clapped him in the ‘bilboes’.
at bilbo, n.
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