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[NZ] J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle in DSUE (1984) 40/1: [He] was a badster, a soul killer.
at badster (n.) under bad, adj.
[NZ] J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle 214: Sometimes you take a tin of fly-bog (treacle) with you as a luxury.
at flybog (n.) under fly, n.3
[NZ] J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle in DSUE (1984).
at go the knuckle (v.) under knuckle, n.
[Aus] J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle 162: The croc disappears, and there’s Ernest, standing up to his waist in the water … scared as hell, but too game to come out … So my dad goes in. He’s a bit sterky too [OED].
at sterky, adj.
[NZ] in J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle in DSUE (1984).
at tin, the, n.
[NZ] J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle in DSUE (1984).
at trick up (v.) under trick, v.
[NZ] J. Devanny By Tropic Sea and Jungle 27: Tully was full of gambling joints, poker schools, troy schools [AND].
at troy, n.
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