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[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 15 Nov. 3/1: I gave him the money because I was afraid. He caught me by the coat and tore it. I heard that he was a bouncer.
at bouncer, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 19 Jan. 4/3: A notorious cattle duffer was run to earth [...] The duffer, having no money, gave the solicitor a fine grey horse as his fee.
at duffer, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 25 Jan. 3/1: John Bull [...] is always trying to make out that he is the ‘chief cook and bottle-washer,‘ and it is time we Scotchmen and Irishmen put the curb on him.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[Aus] Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.) 28 May 2/4: These considerations should be sufficient to induce co-operation in the effort to have the terminus carried beyond the notorious black stump.
at beyond the black stump (adj.) under black stump, n.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 24 Oct. 5/5: A solitary hotel, kept by a miner who was landlord, porter, chief clerk, night clerk, bellboy, cook, bottle manipulator and bottle-washer in one.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 19 Nov. 2s/6: Emily was piping her eye and I was dead beat.
at pipe, v.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 19 Nov. 2s/7: ‘Well, he always runs like that when he sees me,’ said the swagwoman. ‘You see I’m his wife’.
at swagman, n.2
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 15 Oct. 7s/7: A large and tonguey retinue of hired girls.
at tonguey, adj.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. 11 Jan. 5/5: [headl;ine] A Super ‘Super’ [...] Wundham decided to play the super’s role himself; and he did it so well.
at super, adj.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 28 Nov. 4/3: [T]hat eloquence is an affair of [...] high sounding and top-loftical declamation and mouthing cant.
at top-loftical, adj.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 28 Apr. 6/3: If a conviction is inevitable, it sometimes softens the fall if one ‘takes a dive,’ — or literally, pleads guilty.
at take a dive (v.) under dive, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Aus.) 26 May n.p.: Everyone knows ‘Blighty’, but how many would recognise that expressive colloquialism for London, ‘he Smoke’.
at Smoke, the, n.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 28 Apr. 6/3: He stands a chance of avoiding a ’tumble’, which naturally means going to prison.
at tumble, n.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 6 Sept. 1/6: I suggest that the accused uses the hand-bag to carry two square riggers of beer.
at square rigger, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. 4 Feb. 3/3: Defenmdent was also full; absolutely as full as the bottle.
at full, adj.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 2 July 8/2: The possession of a ‘grid’ or ‘mangle’, as cycles are popularly known, is the ambition of almost every youth.
at grid, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 2 July 8/2: The possession of a ‘grid’ or ‘mangle’, as cycles are popularly known, is the ambition of almost every youth.
at mangle, n.2
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 28 Feb. 7/1: New Chum Gold. There is a mineral called pyrites, of a yellow colour and deceptive appearance, which is well known amongst miners as ‘New Chum Gold’.
at new-chum gold (n.) under new-chum, adj.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 4 Apr. 3/2: [headline] Skeeters. A doctor in a mosquito-infected district attended an American official.
at skeeter, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.) 3 Dec. 5/5: tate your capacity per hour in ‘pots’ and/or ‘Noggins’, and/or ‘Snifters’.
at pot, n.1
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 9 Dec. : Stan Lee, milk boozery proprietor, could not give any lawful excuse for keeping his bar open after hours.
at boozery, n.
[Aus] Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 28 Apr. 1/3: And so strong were those bonds of 'cobbership' among the men of Anzac that to-day, thirty odd years since the landing on Gailipoli, there is a brotherhood amongst those men that is second to none.
at cobbership (n.) under cobber, n.2
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