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Sydney Mail 1 Nov. 2/4: Goliah Gruff riding, like Johnny Gilpin, with his bald head shining like a bladder of lard.at bladder of lard, n.1
Sydney Mail 1 Nov. 2/4: Goliah Gruff riding, like Johnny Gilpin, with his bald head shining like a bladder of lard. Sydney Mail 4 Jan. 2/2: ‘Is it possum?' ejaculated the black [...] ‘Why, it might be kid, you know,’ responded Dick, using the slang term for child.at kid, n.1
Sydney Mail 12 Dec. 6/6: the enemy kept up a blazing fusilade all night, and yelled like infernal demons every quarter of an hour, "Puckeroo the hoya,"—kill the soldier!at puckeroo, adj.
Sydney Mail 22 Dec. 4/1: How dare he to have the impudence to say that she would cuddle him? Bah! she wouldn’t touch him with a clothes prop, said I.at wouldn’t touch it with a (barge-)pole under touch, v.1
Sydney Mail 26 Mar. 9/7: They seem pretty well tied up together do them there new chaps in the corner, and when tbey go they’ll go all in a lump, like Brown's cows.at all together like Brown’s cows (adj.) under Brown’s cows, n.
Sydney Mail 16 Apr. 9/6: He ain’t so young as he was thirty years ago, and the top of his head is as smooth and as shiny as a Charney [?] alley, though he does try to take the down off by brushing the hair over it from each side of his nob, but lor, it don’t cover it no how, and ain’t even enough to keep the mosquitoes off his old cobbera.at cobbera, n.
Sydney Mail 19 Nov. 8/4: The presence in your shed of a leading man, or in shearers' vernacular ‘a ringer’ is most objectionable. Tbis man is supposed to be privileged to call ‘Smoke, oh!’ or ‘Knock off!’ &c.at smoko, n.
Sydney Mail 24 Feb. 247/3: I [...] heard him say that they had got a soaper and a slang, and 7s. 6d. from the man.at s(o)uper and slang (n.) under super, n.2
Sydney Mail 11 Aug. 179/2: A whisper has reached town concerning some swallow-catching by Woodlands.at swallow-catcher, n.
Sydney Mail 26 Oct. 671/2: The other day she went up to visit her mother’s family, and while passing the town of Solosolo was waylaid and ravished by a young spark of the town, a son of the late Leota (Bullamacow) .at bullamacow, n.
Sydney Mail 6 July 10/4: Colonial Goose.— One way to cook a shoulder of mutton is simply to roast it; but a far more tasty dish is to make it into a colonial goose, which is done in the following manner: Take out the bone, then make stuffing of onions and sage, as for ordinary goose, put it in place of the bone and sew it up, then roast.at colonial duck (n.) under colonial, adj.
Sydney Mail 7 Feb. 268/2: [L]ike Brown's cows, they were bent on getting home together; and [...] tion in regard to the second.at all together like Brown’s cows (adj.) under Brown’s cows, n.
Sydney Mail 4 Apr. 736/3: The sleeper awakened passes shakily along, looking around for an early opening pub where he can steady his nerves with ‘a hair of the dog that bit him’.at early-opener, n.
Sydney Mail 1 May 825/4: I see him stand the observed
of all as chief muffin-worrier in one of
those scenes of wild reckless festivity in that
teapot-like mansion, the Temperance Hall.at muffin-worrier (n.) under muffin-worry, n.
Sydney Mail 7 July 25/2: He ran like a working bullock in the A.J.C. Derby, but certainly retrieved his honour a little by running a good horse for the ‘Blue Ribbon’.at like a working bullock (adj.) under working bullock, n.
Sydney Mail 9 Feb. 279/3: ‘Tommy Atkins is very much changed from what he used to be,’ said the Major [...] as he lit a fresh “Trichy”’.at Trichy, n.
Sydney Mail 24 Jan. 2/4: The crew also recruited their energies upon biscuit and tinned meat, known amongst the Pacific Islands by the generic term ‘bullamacow’.at bullamacow, n.
Sydney Mail 26 Dec. 1356/3: When night came he moped about while the others played the ‘black fellow’s’ game for sticks of tobacco.at blackfellow’s game, n.
Sydney Mail 14 Sept. 698/1: As crayfish, miscalled lobsters, are plentiful, they can be used for bait in preference to prawns, nippers, or fish bait.at nipper, n.4
‘The Electioneering Hack’ in Sydney Mail 18 Jan. 133: This per sonage was a middle-aged man, a spoffish, of quite superior ‘culchaw.’ His accent betokened him to be a native of the Emerald Isle, but he was possessed of absolutely none of the bonhommie or courtesy that invariably marks the educated Irish man.at spoffish, adj.
Sydney Mail 6 May 1118/1: The dickey-birds and the cockyolly-birds and the other little birds all over the world wer simply heartbroken.From Jenny Wren to Willie Wagtail and from Cocky Spag to Jacky Winter they all went about with tears in their eyes.at spag, n.1
Sydney Mail 26 Feb. 9/1: And on consulting a classic work to find synonyms for a Bohemian, we find the following: 'Peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, vagrant, scattering, landloper, waif and stray, wastral, loafer, tramp, vagabond, nomad, Gipsy, emigrant, and peripatetic somnambulist.at bird of passage (n.) under bird, n.1
Sydney Mail 9 Mar. 34/2: The name given for the gadjet on the eve of discovery [...] was something like the following: ‘The blankey-blank-umpteen-blankey-blankard,’ which when translated into Diggerism just about fills the bill.at blankard, n.
Sydney Mail 15 July 8/1: It was the time of the ‘bowler’ hat, the ‘boxer,’ the ‘hard-hitter,’ the ‘plug hat,’ the ‘derby’ — terms synonymous, but varying according to environment.at boxer, n.1
Sydney Mail 15 July 8/1: It was the time of the ‘bowler’ hat, the ‘boxer,’ the ‘hard-hitter,’ the ‘plug hat,’ the ‘derby’ — terms synonymous, bul. varying according to environment.at hard-hitter, n.
Sydney Mail 15 July 8/1: It was the time of the ‘bowler’ hat, the ‘boxer,’ the ‘hard-hitter,’ the ‘plug hat,’ the ‘derby’ — terms synonymous, but varying according to environment.at plug-hat, n.
Sydney Mail 14 July 12/1: ‘Bonzer’ may have come from ‘bon’ or ‘bza’; and ‘bosker’ perhaps was twisted out of ‘bosky.’ (There is also ‘boskarina,’ which is, I understand, the highest form of ‘bosker,’ but it is only rarely used).at boskerina, adj.
Sydney Mail 14 Oct. 2/4: You'll find some more damper in there, flybog, cocky’s joy, bullocky’s delight, axle grease, and a bit o’ junk. That day we had some doughboys and ‘underground mutton’.at axle grease, n.
Sydney Mail 14 Oct. 2/4: You'll find some more damper in there, flybog, cocky’s joy, bullocky’s delight, axle grease, and a bit o’ junk. That day we had some doughboys and ‘underground mutton’.at bullocky’s joy (n.) under bullocky, n.
Sydney Mail 14 Oct. 2/4: You'll find some more damper in there, flybog, cocky’s joy, bullocky’s delight, axle grease, and a bit o’ junk. That day we had some doughboys and ‘underground mutton’.at cocky’s delight (n.) under cocky, n.2
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