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[Aus] Sydney Punch 13 Aug. 91/1: The following correspondence has been forwarded to us for publication. It was carried through the medium of ‘Bush Telegraphs’.
at bush telegraph, n.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 23 June 40/1: Like a second Quintus Curtius, ‘go in a perisher’ against that quagmire of slush and corruption known as the Circular Quay [AND].
at go in a perisher (v.) under perisher, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Punch 25 Aug. 2/2: [H]e stood transfixed with admiration at the immensity of Eagar's genius, goodness, and perfect all-overishness.
at all-overishness (n.) under all-overish, adj.2
[Aus] Sydney Punch 13 Jan. 687/1: How very hard headed both Scotch and Colonial ‘bricks’ are [AND].
at brick, n.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Interjections [...] Bag your head!
at bag your head! (excl.) under bag, v.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Adjectives [...] Beetle-headed.
at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Interjections [...] Boots!
at boots!, excl.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Interjections [...] Bosh!
at bosh!, excl.1
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Interjections [...] Bunkum!
at bunkum, n.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Adjectives [...] Clod-pated.
at clod-pated, adj.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Substantives [...] Cullion.
at cullion, n.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Interjections [...] Pickles!
at pickles!, excl.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 19 Sept. 135/2: Hurrah for the Randwick Races [...] Where never a ‘crack’ was nobbled, Nor a ‘plunger’ showed his face.
at plunger, n.
[Aus] ‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Interjections [...] Rot!
at rot!, excl.1
[Aus] Sydney Punch 14 Nov. 198: [heading] The song of the sundowner .
at sundowner, n.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 17 Mar. 3/2: Chumpy mounts a fantail banger and a milky mill-toy, and has coves on the s[n]uffle grunting lay for their yacks and dummies [...] Mr. Chumpy, dons a black coat and white shirt, and goes round robbing philanthropists of their watches and purses.
at fantail-banger (n.) under fantail, n.1
[Aus] Sydney Punch 1 Oct. 7/2: [He] fences the swag for as much as a finnup and three or four casers.
at fence, v.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 1 Oct. 7/2: [He] fences the swag for as much as a finnup and three or four casers.
at finnip, n.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 1 Oct. 7/2: ‘[H]e’d just come out of the Jug - been kidded on for snatching sawney for grub, and got three stretch’.
at kid on (v.) under kid, v.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 1 Oct. 7/2: Chumpy mounts a fantail banger and a milky mill-toy [...] Mr. Chumpy, dons a black coat and white shirt.
at milltog, n.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 1 Oct. 7/2: ‘[H]e’d just come out of the Jug - been kidded on for snatching sawney for grub, and got three stretch’.
at snatch, v.
[Aus] Sydney Punch 1 Oct. 7/2: Chumpy mounts a fantail banger and a milky mill-toy, and has coves on the s[n]uffle grunting lay for their yacks and dummies.
at snuffle-grunter (n.) under snuffle, n.
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