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[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 50: The fathers returned home after their Saturday afternoon ‘few’.
at few, a, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 163: Henney must be doing a bit of all right for himself.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 192: Dookie’s yer sister, yewr big block-headed bastard.
at blockheaded, adj.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 252: Let’s get out of here [...] before you two start a blue.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 53: Gee, it’s bosker, ain’t it?
at bosker, adj.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 89: I took the attitude that if girls didn’t like to dance with me [...] they could go to Burke or buggery.
at go to buggery! (excl.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 181: He makes me sick, the suave chiselling bastard.
at chisel, v.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 80: We delighted in following couples at night when they went ‘chasing up a cow’, as courting was commonly called, for couples mostly began their night’s love-making by wandering around looking for a sleeping cow that they could disturb to claim the warm patch of earth where it lay.
at chase (up) a cow (v.) under cow, n.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 18: Often we played in this piano-crate cubby house from daylight to dark.
at cubby, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 38: We went dinking together on me bike.
at dink, v.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 77: Dumps are marbles.
at dump, n.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 169: What an eye-full she is too.
at eyeful, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 91: Don’t bloody well spar round with it like a gin at a christening.
at like a gin at a christening under gin, n.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 56: ‘Now where’s the old man gone?’ she asked. ‘Out for a guzzle o’ course,’ Cliff said.
at guzzle, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 32: ‘Pull your head in!’ was the most brotherly answer he would give. [Ibid.] 82: You want to pull your horns in a bit, drongo.
at pull your head in! (excl.) under head, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 104: Well, [...] I never! The hide of you . . . asking to marry my daughter!
at hide, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 249: ‘She’s a bit of a high-kicker though,’ one said. ‘But what a nifty little kicker! [...] And she’s a bloody good sport. She’ll come across if a bloke can get her on his own.’.
at high-kicker (n.) under high, adj.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 95: ‘Knocking a doll’ was an old belief among us youths. We had never believed the story of the stork or of the cabbage patch either. Years ago the big boys had told us a much better story. It was that inside all women there was a number of small babies sitting in a row, and when a man, or a boy big enough, knocked one over, it was born after nine months. Thus our saying ‘to knock a doll’.
at knock over a/the doll (v.) under knock over, v.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 68: Cliff and Alec are doin’ a line with her.
at do a line (with) (v.) under line , n.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 108: Why did you lock on with Nancy this arvo?
at lock on with (v.) under lock, v.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 139: A tall thin joker [...] with a la-te-da little mo.
at mo, n.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 77: ‘I see,’ he said. ‘Dumps are marbles. And I suppose “mucked” means that you won my dumps.’.
at muck, v.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 168: I [...] couldn’t run for nuts.
at for nuts (adv.) under nuts, n.1
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 68: All the boys in town are on with her.
at on with, phr.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 198: ‘I’ve got a strong suspicion [...] Stuart has a finger in the pie.’ ‘Which pie?’ Nell asked. ‘In Nancy’s pie of course.’.
at pie, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 47: I pulled a pig-face at him, and he pulled one back at me.
at pigface (n.) under pig, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 81: Trizzie didn’t pimp.
at pimp, v.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 53: I came home with a beaut plastered pin, white, stiff and cumbersome.
at pin, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 224: Why does the bastard go pissanting around in Tamworth without her?
at pissant (around) (v.) under pissant, n.
[Aus] G. Hamilton Summer Glare 166: Gee, she can put it over, can’t she? [...] What an eyefull she is too.
at put it over (v.) under put, v.1
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