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Aus. Women’s Wkly 9 Feb. 13/2: At this ripe age Dickie-boy became known as ‘The Gay Dog’. His doggishness evidenced itself in the angle of his hat, which was always the latest style .at dog, n.2
Aus. Women’s Wkly 9 Feb. 13/2: At this ripe age Dickie-boy became known as ‘The Gay Dog’. His doggishness evidenced itself in the angle of his hat, which was always the latest style . Aus. Women’s Wkly 9 Feb. 13/2: Lil and Dickie were giving what they called a razzle that Sunday evening.at razzle, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 15 Feb. 12/2: O’Flaherty Takes a Tilt at the ‘Madhouse of Hollywood’ [...] The game of stripping the glamor from the tinsel town of the movies has resulted in many books.at Tinsel Town, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 13 Nov. 2/3: Is Your husband Perfect [...] Does he say there's nothing to do in running a house, or ‘I could do it on my ear’.at do on one’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
Aus. Women’s Wkly 3 July 12/2: Let it not be a dry museum of antique prejudice nor [...] a grotesque poppyshow of fake modernism.at poppy-show, n.2
Aus. Women’s Wkly 5 Mar. 40/4: They thought the Marshal Prince von Blucher a rum touch if ever there was one, opening his bone-box to splutter out his Achs, and his Mein Gotts, and his Fery Goots!at bone box, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 13 Jan. 13/2: ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘too pure for our poor soiled dove, eh?’.at soiled dove, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 13 July 44/1: He was grinning with the ugly, cold satisfaction of the peeper.at peeper, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 26 July 22/2: The rhyming slang of the Cockneys still has its adherents [...] ‘Dad and Mum’ for rum.at dad and mum, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 26 July 22/2: The rhyming slang of the Cockneys still has its adherents [...] ‘Pat and Mick’ for pick.at pat and mick, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 29 Mar. 19/1: ‘Hello, hello!’ I said [...] ‘Off to meet a girl, I suppose?’ But the bushfire blond only glowed. ‘Mal, [...] I'm going along to meet her father’.at bushfire blonde (n.) under bush, n.1
Aus. Women’s Wkly 26 July 22/2: The rhyming slang of the Cockneys still has its adherents [...] ‘dead horse’ for tomato sauce.at dead horse, n.3
Aus. Women’s Wkly 26 July 22/2: A moustache is a ‘fungus’.at fungus, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 26 July 22/2: When your soldier, home on leave, yawns and says he’s going to hit the ‘hay-bag’ it’s [...] his way of saying he’s going to bed.at hit the hay (v.) under hay, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 16 Dec. 6: The false dawn, the ‘piccaninny’ dawn, was already paling the sky.at piccaninny, adj.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 28 Nov. 14/4: [of a bugler] He marches out, snaps to attention, and let’s it go. It’s a treat for sore eyes to see him ‘bung it on’.at bung (it) on (v.) under bung, v.1
Aus. Women’s Wkly 30 May 4/3: He got a wicked tonk on the back of the head.at tonk, n.3
Aus. Women’s Wkly 12 Feb. 19/3: Rhyming slang uch as ‘lady from Bristol’ for pistol, used by Cary Grant, is an amusing comedy slant.at lady from Bristol, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 13 Oct. 10/4: [T]here was such a helter-skelter of Noggies, Yips, Nips, Japs, or unprintables down to the compound that the boys were sure there was an air raid.at noggy, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 9 Feb. 13/2: Come on in. We’re having a bit of a rag.at rag, n.1
Aus. Women’s Wkly 14 Apr. 5/5: ‘Isn’t it funny?’ Midge said, rather trembly. ‘We’re going away.’ Then she remembered. ‘What a swizz, darling,’ she said.at swiz, n.2
Aus. Women’s Wkly 1 Dec. 2/3: The [Second World] war was always referred to as ‘the blue’.at blue, n.4
Aus. Women’s Weekly 1 Dec. 2/3: ‘Copping the crow’ [...] When a new-chum joined locals in the pub it was decided who should pay for the rounds by placing slips of paper in a hat. Ostensibly one slip was marked ‘crow’, but actually all were. The game lasted as long as the new-chum fell for it.at cop the crow (v.) under cop, v.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 1 Dec. 2/3: ‘Done over’ meant anything from being killed in the blue to being bashed on a working party.at done over, adj.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 1 Dec. 2/2: A doover was rice in any other guise.at doover, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 1 Dec. 2/3: ‘Going through’ or ‘shooting through’ meant anything from desertion to evading a fatigue in prisoner-of-war life.at shoot through (v.) under shoot, v.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 8 July 3/3: Don’t be an eager beaver.at eager beaver, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 8 July 24/2: Plenty of people who’d be ashamed to be seen in that poor, but honest rattletrap.at rattletrap, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 17 Dec. 20/3: You’ll get even more used to it when you’re a hostie.at hostie, n.
Aus. Women’s Wkly 17 Nov. 40/2: Double bubble — a glamor girl.at double bubble (n.) under double, adj.
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