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[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 11 Mar. 1/4: By the hookey, if Sally Jones isnt the real grit, the there’s no stakes.
at real grit (n.) under grit, n.1
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 11 Mar. 1/4: By the hookey, if Sally Jones isnt the real grit, the there’s no stakes.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 11 Aug. 2/7: A party of pleasure (or as their slang goes, a prime spree, or a lark).
at lark, n.2
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 11 Aug. 2/7: A party of pleasure (or as their slang goes, a prime spree, or a lark).
at spree, n.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 29 Oct. 2/6: The small beer abortion can fight [...] even without the assistance of the ‘tall Irish’ bully and the ‘Life Defender’.
at abortion, n.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 29 Oct. 2/6: He flogs on the languid wit of his blubber head with Button's treble X and Hodges' cordials.
at blubber-head (n.) under blubber, n.2
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 22 Oct. 2/7: The following is a sample of the polite language, of the Xaminer (Oct. 19) [...] The Doctor did not see his game, but knowing that he had a leary cove to deal with, was wary.
at leery, adj.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 29 Oct. 2/6: The evangelical We, of the Aching-head Gazette, is no Teatotaller, that's pos.
at pos, adj.1
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 19 Dec. 5/3: To be gibed by a mob of police [...] who thought I was ‘good for mopusses,’ as they termed it when they first accosted me [etc] .
at mopus, n.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 30 July 2/4: The [...] French and English were shaking hands and bidding most affectionate farewells to their Ruski comrades.
at Russki, n.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 15 Jan. 2/6: ‘Promised Land’ [...] is now a leggy, three-cornered sort of a horse.
at three-cornered (adj.) under three, adj.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 24 Nov. 4/6: Several surmises are afloat as to the informant who, to use the colonial slang, ‘put away’ Valentine.
at put away, v.
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 12 Jan. 3/2: [news from San Francisco] [A] fellow known [...] to be what is termed in professional slang language, as a ‘safe cutter,’ or an adept in opening iron safes.
at cutter, n.2
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 18 Aug. 5/4: Her majesty’s Female Factory in Hobart, where events befal of the most tragic and appalling nature.
at factory, n.1
[Aus] Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 2 Sept. 4/3: It has become fashion able now amongst our local ‘fast men,’ to use low slang threats as to what shall be done to those members of Parliament who have not bowed the knee to the League.
at fast, adj.1
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