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Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 27 Nov. 2/2: ‘Boozington’ has been reading the MINER, and, mirabile dictu, the leading articles! at boozington, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 27 Nov. 2/2: ‘Boozington’ has been reading the MINER, and, mirabile dictu, the leading articles! Barrier Miner 8 Mar. 2/5: It would be sheer waste of space to give any extended description of what, to the veriest tyro in room, was a glaring ‘schlenter’. In the first place, Evans was not in condition, and inthe second, he was not trying.at slanter, n.1
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 29 Feb. 2/3: [T]he way-back farmers are being asked to believe that a greater principle is involved in the question whether eighteenpence duty per head should or should not be clapped on to imported pigs.at wayback, adj.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 17 Mar. 2/3: The assertive ‘tongue-y’ member who will not be easily silenced.at tonguey, adj.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 19 Jan. 2/5: It was not right that when an accident occurred some ‘pannikin boss’ should be put in the box, and on him thrust the weight of responsibility.at pannikin boss (n.) under pannikin, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hills, NSW) 2 Dec. 4/1: Mr Anderson reports that three Binghis, forming a portion of the coloured crew, attempted to murder him.at binghi, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 31 Dec. 2/8: The patrons [...] were not of the most respectable class, rather the reverse: they were called mainly from the ‘pushes’ that then infected Sydney. Members of the ‘pushes’ and their ‘clinahs!’ (‘Clinahs’ [sic] is larrikin for ‘best girl’).at cliner, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 31 Dec. 2/8: When i entered the dance-room about a hundred of the roughes young men and women were tripping it [...] The faces of the dancers [...] bore the imprint of crime, vice, and cruelty. in the language of the day, I had fallen into ‘a very hot shop’.at hot shop (n.) under hot, adj.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 31 Dec. 2/8: It was an excellent specimen of the waltz as she is waltzed in Larrikin-land.at larrikin, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 31 Dec. 2/8: The patrons [...] were not of the most respectable class, rather the reverse: they were called mainly from the ‘pushes’ that then infected Sydney.at push, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 31 Dec. 2/8: I made known my mission. ‘Ryebuck!’ he retorted.at ryebuck!, excl.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 27 May3/2: On June 5 [he] leaves for London, opening at four more music halls in the ‘big smoke’ on August 2.at Big Smoke, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 27 May3/1: ‘You’ve learnt some Australian slang, too!’ [...] ‘I know “fair dinkum,” “lor blime,” and a few other bits.at lor blime!, excl.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 27 May3/1: ‘You’ve learnt some Australian slang, too!’ [...] ‘I know “fair dinkum,” “lor blime,” and a few other bits.at fair dinkum!, excl.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 27 May3/1: ‘You’ve learnt some Australian slang, too!’ ‘Righto,’ laughed Chirgwin.at righto!, excl.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 27 May 3/1: ‘My ryebuck’ is my sweetheart. I learnt my slang in Sydney from the Randwick ‘boys’.at ryebuck, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 23 Dec. 3/7: Did Howson know Bernstyn? No! No good, anyway; no-good. Drunk most of his — time. And a ‘fair cow’.at fair cow (n.) under fair, adj.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 9 Nov. 3/3: A Tippling Horse [...] the horse was not only dead drunk but displayed all the stymptoms of an inveterate addiction to spirituous liquors.at tippling, adj.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 18 July 3/1: The Adelaide Stagger Juice Brigade [...] exemplified in the number of nose-painting drunkard-makers who attended.at stagger juice (n.) under stagger, n.2
Barrier Miner (Broken Hills, NSW) 29 July 3/4: After the race the wayback punter was seen in a secluded corner of the enclosure.at wayback, n.
Barrier Miner Broken Hill, NSW) 22 July 5/4: Schools Inspector D. E. Fraser left this morning per coach for Bourke and what he terms ‘Beyond-Back-o’-Bourke’.at back of Bourke under back, adv.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 20 Nov. 4/5: Yesterday the tenmperature [...] rose to 98 degrees in the shade, but a cool change with a ‘southerly buster’ came along in the evening.at southerly buster, n.
Barrier Miner Broken Hill, NSW) 22 July 5/4: Schools Inspector D. E. Fraser left this morning per coach for Bourke and what he terms ‘Beyond-Back-o’-Bourke’ [...] Being tired of ‘goat and galah,’ he hopes, owing to the changed condition of the country since his previous visit, to sample ‘galatine of turkey’ en route.at goat-and-galah (adj.) under goat, n.1
Barrier Miner 5 Jan. 2/4: [He] found a miner named Edward Robertson, known as ‘Red Ned’, hanging by a halter.at Red, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 21 Sept. 3/4: An excited young mother opf twins [...] when asked what names they were to have, replied ‘steak and kidney’ instead of ‘Kate and Sydney’.at kate and sidney, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 7 Aug. 8/2: Prominent among the New Zealnd device of welcome [...] is the inscription:- ‘Welcome to God’s own country’ .at Godsown, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 1 Feb. 6/1: Even his [...] pathetic lament ‘that he had lost his punch’ did-not shake our opinion that there had been a swindle somewhere.at lose one’s punch (v.) under punch, n.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/3: They heard it said that Tom Mann was a ramping ranting cuckoo.at cuckoo, n.1
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/3: They heard it said that Tom Mann was a ramping ranting cuckoo.at ramping, adj.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 27 Aug. 4/5: Can. you inform me how it is possible to obtain bread at the union shops, made by union labor, when the union employees are out on strike? [...] I will not say ‘scabby’ union bread, but wiii give my patronage to Messrs. Nelson and Co., wno have not broken faith with their customers.at scabby, adj.2
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