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[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 217: She [...] came back with some amber liquid in a glass.
at amber fluid (n.) under amber, adj.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 72: There’s too big of a mob fer one man to shout the house on his pat at a zac a pop, so you shove in a deaner a nob and flip the rats an’ mice, see? [Ibid.] 73: I think you know somethin’ about throwin’ them rats an’ mice.
at rats and mice, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 245: They’ll [...] get a gutful o’ gallopin’ an’ start booin’ around lookin’ for the fool scrubber that started ’em orf to give him a well-earned poke in the bingie.
at bingy, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 164: I’m going to learn to say ‘My bloody oath!’ and ‘Dinkum, Bonzer’.
at bonzer, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 65: Though he was the ‘brokest’ of the party of eight, he was the cheeriest.
at broke, adj.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 172: He’s a dirty ‘come-on’ for that speelerin’ Fritz.
at come-on, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 173: You sling orf at ’im cos e’ talks English. You reckon ’e’s comin’ it over you cos ’e knows where all the aitches go in.
at come it over (v.) under come it, v.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 65: Topton [...] had very nearly been given the management of a station, but a ‘crawling cow’ had spoilt his chances with the company.
at crawl, v.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 139: A sleepyhead’s a deadhead in any stock camp.
at deadhead, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 192: That’s nigger-dhrivin’ bosses to rout us out of ourr warrm nap wid his daylight! beforre the starrs is aff the shky!
at nigger-driving (adj.) under nigger-driver, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 245: They’ll [...] get a gutful o’ gallopin’ an’ start booin’ around lookin’ for the fool scrubber that started ’em orf.
at gutsful, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 121: By the howly smoke ye’re right, an’ all!
at holy smoke!, excl.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 240: ‘Well, hooroo!’ And he was gone.
at hooroo!, excl.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 147: Well I started as a jackeroo on this place twenty-five years ago, and I’ve managed it now for the last fifteen.
at jackaroo, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 175: Be jaze!
at jeez!, excl.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 21: ‘You book it well ahead and put in the solid Jim.’ (What? — Thirteen and ninepence, and I have to pay two and nine to see?).
at jim, n.3
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 26: Not quite up to the knocker, Son?
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 244: Nothing pleased them more than for one of their number to be caught by a charging ‘Mickey’ [...] No one ever got hurt beyond a bruise or two from stumpy horns.
at mickey, n.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 72: There’s too big of a mob fer one man to shout the house on his pat at a zac a pop, so you shove in a deaner a nob and flip the rats an’ mice, see?
at nob, n.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 95: A camel train winding slowly up [...] Turbaned Afghan drivers in flowing white shirts [...] added just the last touch when the coach overtook the caravan. There was mail for the owner of the sixty-head string of ‘oonts’.
at oont, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 118: Hallett took charge of the three ‘parcel post’ men and showed them a bunk where they could deposit their belongings.
at parcel post, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 278: There was nothing for it but to plug on through the night.
at plug, v.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 72: There’s too big of a mob fer one man to shout the house on his pat at a zac a pop, so you shove in a deaner a nob and flip the rats an’ mice, see?
at pop, n.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 163: It does me good to see the likes o’ them that’s lorded it [...] down to pot-jostlin’ for the toiler.
at pot-jostler (n.) under pot, n.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 268: Richards never has a rahzoo.
at razoo, n.1
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 197: One man, the ‘ringer’ of the shed, went away with more money earned in the three weeks than Atherton would draw for his year’s work.
at ringer, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 198: Dey say, ‘Hard cheese, Fritz, old sausech! You vos have der rodden lugk.’.
at sausage, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 197: Several lost their all in the great two-up game that started out in the open between the shearers’ hut and the kitchen. Fritz went into the ‘school’ with three pounds in his hand, and left [...] with forty.
at school, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 245: They’ll [...] get a gutful o’ gallopin’ an’ start booin’ around lookin’ for the fool scrubber that started ’em orf to give him a well-earned poke in the bingie.
at scrubber, n.
[Aus] ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 168: The latter was silent too. Men did not ‘skite’ over long about their riding in Hallett’s camp.
at skite, v.1
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