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[NZ] Bruce Herald (Otago) 7 Mar. 7/4: The bushwhackers’ sturdy boys are fishing for perch and cod out of her stern sheets.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[NZ] Bruce Herald (Otago) 13 May 4/2: He was carrying home a big bag of money. Two ruffians watched him, and ‘set’ his cab, saw him nodding and jumped in.
at set, v.
[NZ] Bruce Herald 4 May 6/7: The ‘Verse’ was labelled variously ‘hog-wash,’ ‘flapdoodle mixture,’ ‘slumgullion,’ etc.
at flapdoodle, n.2
[NZ] Bruce Herald 4 May 6/7: The ‘Verse’ was labelled variously ‘hog-wash,’ ‘flapdoodle mixture,’ ‘slumgullion,’ etc.
at hogwash, n.
[NZ] Bruce Herald 4 May 6/7: The ‘Verse’ was labelled variously ‘hog-wash,’ ‘flapdoodle mixture,’ ‘slumgullion,’ etc.
at slumgullion, n.
[NZ] Bruce Herald (N.Z.) 15 Mar. 7/5: I’d the biggest pinch wot ever wor known — a dead certainty .
at pinch, n.
[NZ] Bruce Herald (Otago, NZ) 18 July 7: Some men were twitting a son [...] about his father’s exhibition of the white feather.
at show the (white) feather (v.) under show, v.
[NZ] Bruce Herald (Otago, NZ) 18 July 7: If you want to get the stuffin’ tore out of you, you just take me!
at stuffing, n.1
[NZ] Bruce Herald (Otago, NZ) 18 July 7: Some men were twitting a son [...] about his father’s exhibition of the white feather.
at twit, v.
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