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[Aus] Bunbury Herald (WA) 5 Nov. 4/3: The merits of the programme submitted was summed up by the genial Canon in a very few words. It was, he said, at least ‘bonsa,’ if not ‘bontosta,’ possibly ‘bontosterino’.
at bontoshter, adj.
[Aus] Bunbury Herald (WA) 5 Noov. 4/3: The merits of the programme submitted was summed up by the genial Canon in a very few words. It was, he said, at least ‘bonsa,’ if not ‘bontosta,’ possibly ‘bontosterino’.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] Bunbury Herald (Bunbury, WA) 9 Apr. 3/6: He used to sing out, ‘Sampler snatched the Stakes;’ ‘Muddler Mucked the Mile;’ ‘Uckleberry ’umped it ’ome in the ’Urdles,’ and generally wind up by saying, ‘Real rotten; didn’t draw a drube’.
at droob, n.1
[Aus] Bunbury Herald (WA) 3 May 2/7: On Wednesday last, while engaged in his usual avocation of swamping for a whim driver, at Argyle, a young man named Frederick Maxwell met with his death.
at swamp, v.2
[Aus] Bunbury Herald (WA) 3 June 8/2: To advocate the reading of bad books [...] is like saying it is better to sleep in a stuffy room full of disease germs, and risk illness, than to have a roof at all when the whole range of the ‘Star Hotel’ with its health giving atmosphere is available .
at star hotel (n.) under star, n.1
[Aus] Bunbury Herald (Aus.) 25 July 7/6: A burl along the roadway indicated its capability of attaining 25 miles per hour on a level stretch.
at go for a burl (v.) under burl, n.
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