![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia")
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Dec. 4/1: ‘I’ll make a guy-a- whack book on the Summer Cup’.at guy-a-whack, adj.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Dec. 4/1: ‘I’ll make a guy-a- whack book on the Summer Cup’. Dead Bird (Sydney) 21 Dec. 8/1: The fool takes long odds, but the guy-a-whack bookmaker is fleet of foot.at guy-a-whack, adj.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 20 July 6/1: He pegged out and threw a seven.at chuck a seven, v.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 30 Nov. 7/4: For some time I have thought that he [i.e. a dog] was no account.at no-account, adj.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 10 Aug. 4/2: Blucher boots, whose polish emulated the oleaginous glean of his ‘aggravators’.at aggerawator, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 21 Sept. 3/2: Ah Chin he sold his ‘cabbagee’ / To swell folks every day.at ah cabbage, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 20 July 6/1: This led us to suppose that ‘Prince Alberts’ were preferred to socks in his time.at Prince Alberts, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 28 Dec. 7/1: Says Mrs A., ‘What are you going to have for your Christmas dinner?’ says Mrs B., ‘Well, if Joe is at home I will have a good goose, but if he is not at home I do not know what I will have’.at goose (and duck), n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 2 Nov. 4/2: For they rarely mention ‘asses’ in that gathering of ‘the blest,’ / [...] /Since we’ve learned to call a ‘donkey’ what our forbears called an ‘ass’.at ass, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 17 Aug. 2/1: After people have visited the ‘aunts’ of dissipation, they usually visit their uncles.at aunt, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Sept. 7/4: His trainer [...] had secured an old coloured ‘Aunty’ to cook for him.at aunt, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Sept. 4/4: The little newsboys ‘barracked’ cheerily for their pet paper.at barrack, v.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 30 Nov. 7/4: The old gentleman came home unexpectedly, which occasioned the young gallant to do a Botany for the back fence.at Botany Bay, v.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 28 Sept. 1/4: ‘You billy-be-dad-slammed hunk of soap fat!’.at billy-be-damned, adj.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 7 Sept. 5/4: While my blue-blooded young man was giving him beans, I’d just hover around.at give someone beans (v.) under beans, n.2
Dead Bird (Sydney) 16 Nov. 7/4: ‘Have you noticed,’' asks a friend, ‘how lame horses run in the Melbourne Cup? It licks cock-fighting’.at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 26 Oct. 4/4: Black-eyed Edith was a beauty with the accent on the bewt.at beaut, n.1
Dead Bird (Sydney) 26 Oct. 4/3: We leant over to press our lips on to the ruby gateway of her ivory-mounted corn beef depot.at corn-beef depot, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 7 Dec. 2/1: Girls in New Brunswick, N.J , have organised and passed resolutions declaring that they will allow no young man to escort them home from church or a party [...] who has not been there. Quite right.at been there, phr.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Dec. 7/4: Sir, — There is a lot of talk about beer-chewers challenging one another. [...] We have got a man in Rookwood, who will chew, eat or drink beer with any other man ia the colonies.at beer-chewer (n.) under beer, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 20 July 1/4: ‘Hello,’ said Early Bird to a friend in the beer jerking industry, ‘what’s the matter that you’re dolled up in your Sunday suit?’.at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 20 July 1/3: The officer seeing two beetle-crushers waving in the breeze [etc].at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
Dead Bird (Sydney) 27 July 2/2: He is going on a howling bender.at bender, n.2
Dead Bird (Sydney) 28 Sept. 4/3: The solemn porter biffed along with his truck.at biff along (v.) under biff, v.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 26 Oct. 3/3: Alderman — had evidently a load on what the only M’Elhone styles his ‘bingie’.at bingy, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 16 Nov. 2/2: A business man [...] tried to frighten his servant girl by playing burglars. He got through her window, but her ‘bloke’ was near and spanked him.at bloke, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 9 Nov. 1/1: Blow holes — Politicians’ mouths.at blow, n.3
Dead Bird (Sydney) 7 Dec. 2/2: One great blubber wanted to kiss each of the girls.at blubber, n.2
Dead Bird (Sydney) 9 Nov. 2/3: Upon going to his house a well-known gentleman in blue found nailed upon the door a placard running thus [etc].at boys in blue, n.
Dead Bird (Sydney) 30 Nov. 2/1: Some books are not fit to burn, far less to read. Blue books? at blue, adj.3
load more results