Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Newcastle Chron. (NSW) 23 Apr. 3/1: Just at present there is a great deal of defaced coin in Maitland. It is genuine enough but banks and tradespeople show great reluctance to accept it [...] This kind of money has been named here ‘Tommy Dodd’ [...] It is difficult to account for so quaint a name [...] with regard to silver coinage.at tommy dodd, n.1
Newcastle Chron. (NSW) 15 Apr. 4/1: I asked him [...] how he was off for cash [...] he replied he didn’t know; to the second, that he had just one sixpence - a Tommy Dodd - left, out of which he meant to pay his next letter to you.at tommy dodd, n.3
Newcastle Chron. (NSW) 11 July 4/6: English Extracts [...] After examining [the watch], Clark handed it to the prisoner, telling him at the same time to ‘lugg’ it. The prisoner then took it and ‘lugged’ it at a pawnshop for 10s. [...] ‘Lugg’ is the slang for pawn.at lug, v.2
Newcastle Chron. (NSW) 28 Mar. 2/3: While Dr. Thomas [...] was taking his customary bath in the Bogie hole [...] a wave of great magnitude and force broke over the edge of the rocks, and [...] dashed him down beside the edge of the bath hole, bruising and lacerating him severely.at bogey, n.2
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