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Cairns Post (Qld) 11 May 2/7: Some people in our office don’t know the difference between an officer of Excise and a suspected sly groggist.at sly-grog, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 11 May 2/7: Some people in our office don’t know the difference between an officer of Excise and a suspected sly groggist. Cairns Post (Qld) 19 May 7/4: As the bullocky would say, ‘They got more than a fair crack of the whip’.at fair crack of the whip, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 2 Sept. 4/3: Is It a Smoodge? [...] The general opinion is that it is merely part of a new movement to curry favour.at smoodge, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 10 Jan. 2/3: A man comes here with the intelligence of a chimpanzee and the manners of a brothel bludger.at bludger, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 3 July 4/7: Who has not heard the men from the land o’ cakes say ‘The Real Mackay’ when anything appeals to them.at land o’ cakes (n.) under land, n.3
Cairns Post (Qld) 3 July 4/7: Who has not heard the men from the land o’ cakes say ‘The Real Mackay’ when anything appeals to them.at real McCoy, the, n.
Cairns Post (Queensland) 16 Nov. n.p.: But I tells ’er to nark it.at nark it! (excl.) under nark, v.2
Cairns Post (Qld) 15 Nov. 2/5: I’d like to see ‘you’ try to fire a gun. / A kiddy’s shanghai suits you best, old son.at shanghai, n.2
Cairns Post (Queensland) 16 Nov. n.p.: You’d get shook on some Frenchie, a tart of Paree.at shook on (adj.) under shook, adj.
Cairns Post (Qld) 21 Feb. 4/6: The Cairns Inspector of Nuisances is making a ‘welter’ of it [i.e. stray animals].at make a welter (v.) under welter, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 20 Dec. 4/4: [headline] A Wharfie Fined.at wharfie, n.
Cairns Post 12 Mar. 7/4: The British Recruiting Mission have prepared a glossary of trench slang [...] Jake - universal army term to express satisfaction.at jake, adj.1
Cairns Post 12 Mar. 7/4: The British Recruiting Mission have prepared a glossary of trench slang [...] Mulligan.-A stew usually made of the regular ration issue and whatever extras may come to hand. Sometimes cooked in a shrapnel helmet .at mulligan, n.
Cairns Post 12 Mar. 7/5: S.O.L.-Delete. Applied to any- thing that cannot be done or is called off. Signallers' alphabet.at s.o.l., n.
Cairns Post 12 Mar. 7/4: The British Recruiting Mission have prepared a glossary of trench slang [...] The British Recruiting Mission have prepared a glossary of trench slang [...] Sammies. - This name has been widely adopted by the British troops as a name for their American comades-in-arms. lt may be an Anglicised version of the French ‘nos amis’ but is probably derived from the appelation ‘Uncle Sam’.at sammy, n.
Cairns Post 30 Sept. 4/5: [headline] Abo Influenza Victims.at abo, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 23 Dec. 4/6: Almost too good to be true — but it’s a square dinkum fact!at fair dinkum, adj.
Cairns Post 6 Jan. 3/5: Ladies and black-fellows, as there is no white fellow glory-grinder to marryum Topsy alonga Andy, I thinket me marryum this two fellow meself.at glory-grinding (n.) under glory, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 5 May 3/2: The majority of these robbers wre Vandemonians with a ticket of leave [...] our real hard-case criminals were generally sent to that penal island.at vandemonianism, n.
Cairns Post 30 Sept. 5/1: [headline] Abo Found Drunk.at abo, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 15 June 2/5: [advert] At 9/6 is a Special Medium Leaf Bound Edge LAMINGTON STYLE HAT, suitable for elderly gentlemen, in Dark Brown only.at Lamington, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 4 Aug. 4/5: The official Labour press is actually ‘throwing off’ at [...] the new Governor of Queensland because he is a Jew!at throw off, v.
Cairns Post (Qld) 16 June 7/3: I got slops from the missus who wanted to know what kept me.at get slops (v.) under slop, n.1
Cairns Post (Qld) 4 Oct. 4/5: Some day the honest worker will see the truth in a sermon illustrated on page eight of the ‘Bushman’s Bible’ (The Bulletin of September 22nd).at bushman’s bible (n.) under bushman’s..., n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 22 July 11/2: [orig. Indian text] Mr. M. fell out of action into the alleyway, w’ere ’e ’eld a very red ’andkerchif to ’is nose wiv one ’and, and a burra peg to ’is mouf with the other.at burra peg (n.) under burra, adj.
Cairns Post (Qld) 18 May 2/2: A man who fails to come up to their standard is a ‘tripe-hound’.at tripe-hound (n.) under tripe, n.1
Cairns Post 12 Dec. 5/1: Charles Pla, a waterside worker, in giving evidence, said that he had earned £9 at the Cairns wharves [...] The ‘bull’ system lowered the mental and moral physique of the men.at bull, n.1
Cairns Post (Qld) 24 Mar. 9/2: He [...] saw the official in a sleeveless singlet (a Jackie Howe shirt, I presume). [...] those Jackie Howes are cool and comfortable.at Jackie Howe, n.
Cairns Post (Qld) 29 Dec. 4/4: [headline] Motor Scorchers [...] He becomes seized with an impulse to scorch, and all considerations of safety [...] are thrownt o the wind.at scorch, v.
Cairns Post (Qld) 29 Dec. 4/4: [headline] Motor Scorchers.at scorcher, n.
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