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Clipper (Hobart) 5 Oct. 7/1: They call a till-thief in Melbourne a ‘peter sneaker’ or a ‘galley-shover’.at galley-shover, n.
Clipper (Hobart) 5 Oct. 7/1: They call a till-thief in Melbourne a ‘peter sneaker’ or a ‘galley-shover’. Clipper (Hobart) 5 Oct. 7/1: They call a till-thief in Melbourne a ‘peter sneaker’ or a ‘galley-shover’.at peter-sneaker (n.) under peter, n.3
Clipper (Hobart) 16 May 5/2: He is not one of those wild sledgehammer preachers who split the planks of his cackle-tub every time he brings his right wing down.at cackle tub (n.) under cackle, v.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 15 Aug. 3/4: Wearin out them gell’s soul cases / With the way they makes em work.at soul-case, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 31 Oct. 3/3: ‘When a steamer departs after the advertised time there is much inconvenience to the man who is trying to do a dinny away from his creditors’.at do a dinny (v.) under dinnyhazer, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 25 July 4/6: Get the city down and hold it, / Flashin round jest as they pleese, / That there game ain’t in the running / Nor by any means the cheese.at flash, v.4
Clipper (Hobart) 4 Apr. 2/2: The [...] ‘flogger’ coat of the Launceston police is tha cause of a good deal of worry to some [...] who are howling for a more swagger cut.at flogger, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 11 July 3/4: A few pore devils out of graft, / Sum other idlers, too.at graft, n.1
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 11 July 3/4: And arf the koshers of the town / Were marshalled on tbe square; / I can’t see ow we wants the foorce / To keep up order there.at kosher, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 15 Aug. 3/4: Right around around the corner comes a / Bloke, as how he were a swell; / Dressed up toffy, on him leanin / Were a andsome lookin gell.at toffish (adj.) under toff, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 1 May 6/2: One I thinks when I am out— / Wot the bible punchers doin? / Wot their wimmen are about.at bible-puncher (n.) under bible, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 1 May 6/2: Got no furniture to speak of, / Scarcely got no clobber too .at clobber, n.
Clipper (Hobart) 7 Aug. 7/1: ‘Peter sneaking’ is what they call robbing a till in the slang of the gutter, also ‘galley shoving’.at galley-shover, n.
Clipper (Hobart) 7 Aug. 7/1: ‘Peter sneaking’ is what they call robbing a till in the slang of the gutter, also ‘galley shoving’.at peter-sneaker (n.) under peter, n.3
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 1 May 6/2: She are goin off her rocker / With the howlin and the rant.at off one’s rocker under rocker, n.1
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 1 May 6/2: You could twig the gurl are square, / And pure as any gurl could be.at square, adj.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 8 Oct. 6/2: The two jokers were in a down town hostelry [...] when in popped a couple of Salvarmy lasses bent on selling the War Cry and converting the customers of Bung from tbe paths of gin — or sin.at Salvarmy, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 27 May 7/1: [N]ymphs de pave always figure [...] among the best dressed and certainly not the least lady-like women of the grand stand. Sin must shine pretty goloptious to the sweated shop and factory girls.at golopshus, adj.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 25 Nov. 3/5: ‘But they can’t both be fools,’ objected Jim the Luney.at loony, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 27 May 7/1: [N]ymphs de pave always figure at every race meet, among the best dressed and certainly not the least lady-like women of the grand stand.at nymph of the pavé, n.
Clipper (Hobart) 2 Sept. 6/1: Strange, too, these inventions of the devil seem to be mostly worn at concerts, while out in the Streets the modest little pea-dodger seems good enough.at pea-dodger (n.) under pea, n.1
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 8 July 3/5: Now this was a proceeding which / I thought was pretty blooming rich.at rich, adj.
Clipper (Hobartr, Tas.) 28 Sept. 6: [headline] Vandemoninism. the Case of Anne Chalmers.at vandemonianism, n.
Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 9 Aug. 2/6: The ancient granny was a native of County Clare, Ireland, spent her latter days in praying and smoking a long doodee.at dood, n.1
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