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The Man From Clinkapella choose

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[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘A Stranger in the Camp’ in Man From Clinkapella 25: We’ll get the games going again, and let the smart alec run the meetin’ himself.
at smart aleck, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘A Stranger in the Camp’ in Man From Clinkapella 23: [He] had demonstrated on occasions that he was ‘handy with the bunch of fives’.
at bunch of fives, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘A Stranger in the Camp’ in Man From Clinkapella 24: You better take that back, or put yer bloody dooks up.
at put up one’s dooks (v.) under dook, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘A Stranger in the Camp’ in Man From Clinkapella 22: ‘Evens it is, gents.’ ‘Get set on the side.’ ‘Come in, spinner.’.
at spinner, n.3
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘A Stranger in the Camp’ in Man From Clinkapella 21: Four or five hundred horses on the job meant a plentiful supply of chaff and oat bags, and these were pressed into service to build tents, primitive sleeping bags called ‘waggas’, eating houses, stables, and the like.
at wagga, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Man From Clinkapella 5: ‘War’s a bastard,’ was all I could say.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Man From Clinkapella 4: What’d he cop, malaria?
at cop, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Man From Clinkapella 3: ‘Cow of a night,’ I said, as he took off the wet cape.
at cow, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Man From Clinkapella 5: Gawd, it’s crook, isn’t it?
at crook, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Man From Clinkapella 4: I’d rather get blown to pieces than go off my head.
at off one’s head, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Man From Clinkapella 3: You’ll be alright, mate.
at mate, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 8: Ar got no sympathy for youse blokes. I’m battlin’, same as you are. But I got plenty a’wood.
at battle, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 6: Buzz orf and have yer dinner.
at buzz off!, excl.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 8: I reckon we orta give it a flutter.
at flutter, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 6: Tell Tye to come and have a go himself if he’s in such a hurry.
at go, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 11: Hop into it, and stop moaning.
at hop in(to), v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 10: Surely Darky’s scared, but he don’t seem to be. Wish to Hell I hadn’t said I’d be in it. If we’re seen, we’ll go to gaol.
at in it, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 7: Jees, it was cold last night.
at jeez!, excl.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 11: A man can’t tell whether you’re shivering with fright or with the cold. Yer a jonah, if ever there was one.
at jonah, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 9: Keep yer trap shut. If yer squeal about this, I’ll kick yer bloody guts in!
at squeal (on), v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Load of Wood’ in Man From Clinkapella 8: Here’s one Darky that’ll risk gettin’ pinched, before he’ll let his kids freeze.
at pinch, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy ‘The Returned Soldier’ in Man From Clinkapella 18: The other three men had the ragtailed appearance, blotched skin and bleary eyes of the plonk drinker.
at plonk, n.2
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