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[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 6 May 2/7: Sawney and pat — A Scotchman and an Irishman were sleeping at an inn together.
at Sawney, n.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: Thus quite important city merchants will tell you nonchalantly that they ‘blued their stuff’ in such and such a venture; while the partizan of [...] the racecourse prefers to express himself as having ‘blued his good greed’.
at blew, v.2
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: ‘It takes the bun,’ in its amended and more modern form of ‘It embezzles the pastry,’ is still popular with all classes of society .
at take the cake, v.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: No one is ever ill only ‘a trifle off color,’ or, in more severe cases, ‘feel cronk,’ or ‘crook,’ or even ‘shicker.’ .
at cronk, adj.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: No one is ever ill only ‘a trifle off color,’ or, in more severe cases, ‘feel cronk,’ or ‘crook,’ or even ‘shicker’.
at crook, adj.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: ‘Jigger’ is another very popular term - in fact, most people seem to devote a tremendous amount of time and energy to avoid by any chance using the word ‘bicycle’ .
at jigger, n.5
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: People no longer get into trouble. They simply ‘go a mucker’.
at mucker, n.1
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: Of course we should not expect hon. members to descend to the slang of the streets, although we do remember to have heard one hon. gentleman refer to another as a ‘shycer’ .
at shicer, n.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Vic.) 25 Feb. 5/3: No one is ever ill only ‘a trifle off color,’ or, in more severe cases, ‘feel cronk,’ or ‘crook,’ or even ‘shicker’ .
at shicker, adj.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Brisbane) 14 Apr. 1/4: ‘All-fired’ is used as [a] general intensive, such as ‘all-fired racket’.
at all-fired, adj.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Brisbane) 14 Apr. 1/4: You do not ‘sack’ a man, you ‘bounce’ him.
at bounce, v.1
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Brisbane) 14 Apr. 1/4: There are many ways you can ask a friend to have a drink [...] ‘Will you irrigate’.
at irrigate, v.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Brisbane) 14 Apr. 1/4: There are many ways you can ask a friend to have a drink [...] ‘What’s your medicine?’.
at medicine, n.
[Aus] Broadford Courier (Brisbane) 14 Apr. 1/4: There are many ways you can ask a friend to have a drink [...] ‘Let us stimulate’.
at stimulate, v.
[Aus] B. Bolt Lifting of the Shadow in Broadford Courier (Vic.) 6 Feb. 4/1: It’s [...] a bit rough on me that you didn't let on who you were when we met, but instead let me go on drivelling on without warning.
at a bit rough (adj.) under rough, adj.
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