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Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/3: [W]e beheld a thick-set fellow, of bull-dog aspect, [...] formerlv a convict, [...] and by profession a bruiser.at bruiser, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/3: [W]e beheld a thick-set fellow, of bull-dog aspect, [...] formerlv a convict, [...] and by profession a bruiser. Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/4: ‘Is he fly?’ said a slinking individual.at fly, adj.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/4: ‘He’s a pal of
mine; so just drop that fogle’.at fogle, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/4: Who [...] has not heard of ‘Cranky Bet Meredith,’ the plotter of crimes? No one knew better than she how to plant stolen goods.at plant, v.1
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/3: The pigs and the praties, illicit peat-stills [...] and other traditions of the old countrie.at pratie, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 29 July 4/4: Then commenced a torrent of interrogation, mostly in slang, ‘What’s he shook?’ ‘Has he sloped?’.at shake, v.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 13 June 7/5: [T]he prurient slang of the fancy girl of some young thief.at fancy girl, n.
letter in Goulburn Herald (NSW) 7 Aug. 4/1: Sir, The following extraordinary document was handed to me, a few days ago, by ‘Old Billy’ the blackfellow, who avers that it was thrown in his way by an antiquated kangaroo, white with age.at Billy the blackfellow, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 2 Oct. 4/1: The reign of John Company, therefore, draws to its close.at John Company, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 16 Jan. 2/7: They plainly asked Mr. Jacobs whether he would act as ‘fenae’—a slang phrase applied to the numerous ‘middemen’ of London who buy from the thieves and sell to the public.at fence, n.1
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 6 Mar. 4/4: Jackson replied, ‘I will soon put the “manaker” (a slang term for a name, founded upon an inversion of ‘maker’s name’) out of that’.at monniker, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 11 Mar. 4/1: You will see a subscriber take up his news paper [...] and, after perusing it for an hour, throw it down in disgust, affirming (in bush slang) [...] that it is not worth ‘a tinker’s curse’.at not worth a tinker’s damn, phr.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 21 Jan. 3/2: Of course such a notable character must be a J.P. I do not mean judge of pigs, but a real magistrate.at judge of pigs, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 20 Dec. 2/5: The villain in the latter instance put on what is termed in their slang, the ‘Maginnis’ pretty strong, as the throat is so much swollen as to almost prevent swallowing.at put (the) mcginnis on (v.) under mcginnis, n.
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 7 June 2/6: Goulburn is entirely free from rats, and almost so from mosquitoes, or at least of that species known as the Scotch Greys.at Scotch greys (n.) under Scotch, adj.
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