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We of the Never-Never choose

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[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) Prelude: A strange medley of [...] travellers, overlanders, and billabongers, who passed in and out of our lives.
at billabonger, n.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 19: I was sound asleep, rolled up in a ‘bluey’.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 232: Several yards of sweet currant ‘brownie’.
at brownie, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 53: He had decided to give bullock-punching a turn.
at bullock-puncher (n.) under bullock, n.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 3: The women-folk spoke of a woman ‘going bush’ as ‘sheer madness.’ Besides, no woman travels during the Wet. [Ibid.] 114: Fortunately Dan was ‘bush’ again among the cattle.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 214: Most of ’em seem to think that when we’re not on the drink we’re whipping the cat or committing suicide.
at whip the cat, v.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 9: The bushman took the hint, and after [...] a ‘Chin, chin, old man,’ left us.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 228: Soo-oup! Chuckie! Ha-am!
at chuckie, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (2004) 191: At sun-up next morning Happy Dick ‘did a get’ to his work.
at get, n.3
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 3: The Katherine was [...] inclined to ‘reckon the missus a goer,’ and that public sympathy was with the stockman.
at goer, n.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 14: We rode [...] with Jackaroo, the black ‘boy’, bringing up the rear.
at jackaroo, n.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 106: He calls the first two hundred miles of his trip a ‘kid’s game’.
at kid, adj.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 144: Got everything up to knocker, haven’t they?
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 125: ‘Good evening, mates,’ he said dismounting.
at mate, n.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 91: Good day, boss! Good day, missus!
at Missus, n.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 104: In ‘half a mo’ the seals were broken, and the mail-matter shaken out.
at mo, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) Prelude: Called the Never-Never, the Maluka loved to say, because they who have lived in it and loved it, Never-Never voluntarily leave.
at never-never, the, n.1
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 146: He’ll stick to me till I peg out.
at peg out, v.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 35: I’m real slap-up at Johnny cakes!
at slap-up, adj.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 37: The Head Stockman [...] with his faithful tawny-coloured shadow, ‘Old Sool’em’, beside him.
at sool, v.
[Aus] J. Gunn We of the Never-Never (1962) 3: No woman travels during the Wet.
at wet, the, n.
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