![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia")
Aus. Star (Sydney) 22 Dec. 4/6: He would like to know [...] whether bricks or crowbars are generally used in these ‘physical demonstrations’ and further whether ‘suppression’ takes the form of a ‘oner on the wind’.at oner, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 22 Dec. 4/6: He would like to know [...] whether bricks or crowbars are generally used in these ‘physical demonstrations’ and further whether ‘suppression’ takes the form of a ‘oner on the wind’. Aus. Star (Sydney) 11 Jan. 5/7: ‘Toe-raggers.’ — Thomas Malin, and Kate Walpole, representatives of the do-nothing-but-drink-if-I-know-it profession, retired for three months [...] at hard labour.at toe-ragger, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 29 Apr. 6/4: Lizzie Stanning, 19 [...] was sentenced to a term of three months’ hard labor on the vagrant ticket [...] she had been consorting with a num ber of ‘toe-raggers’ and other vaga bonds around Circular Quay.at toe-ragger, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 21 Oct. 2/2: ‘Ye’ll better just flit bag and baggage, hinny, if yon bonny bird-cage will hold all your trinkum-trankums’.at trinkum-trankum, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 11 Oct. 4/3: Then there is the public man and solid citizen, who goes to church rain or shine overy Sunday in the year, and lifts his eyes to the ceiling as he drops a ‘thrumbo’ in the plate.at thrums, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 5 Nov. 7/4: ‘[D]ead men,’ alias empty fizz-flagons, covered the carpet .at dead man, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 16 Oct. 6/7: In theatrical parlance Henry got the ‘bird’ in the form of 14 days poultryless labor.at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
Aus. Star (Sydney) 9 June 3/2: Mr. Richards will introduce to Australia an up to date London ditty, catchily called ‘Clamber Closer Clara,’ which is described [...] as a ‘regular rumpty-tummer,’ whatever that may be.at rumpty, adj.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 19 Oct. 7/5: Constable Ward gave evidence that when arrested Phillippie questioned him as to what he was being taken in for ‘this time,’ remarking, ‘I suppose it’s for a block and tackle affair.’ The constable explained that ‘block and tackle’ were slang terms for watch and chain.at block and tackle, n.1
Aus. Star (Sydney) 6 Aug. 6/1: Mixed Drinks [...] even on the isolated resorts of the Never Never the virtues of rum and cloves and barmaid’s blush find but few votaries, where once they possessed legions.at barmaid’s blush, n.1
Aus. Star (Sydney) 6 June 5/4: Let us look at the company. Ask a detective what It Is made up of and, he will tell you, ‘Oh, spielers, wasters, bludgers, thieves, burglars, dippers, Peter sneakers, snatchers, wiffle coppers, galley shovers, and so forth’.at galley-shover, n.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 6 June 5/4: Let us look at the company. Ask a detective what It Is made up of and, he will tell you, ‘Oh, spielers, wasters, bludgers, thieves, burglars, dippers, Peter sneakers, snatchers, wiffle coppers, galley shovers, and so forth’.at peter-sneaker (n.) under peter, n.3
Aus. Star (Sydney) 9 Apr. 6/5: On a document handed in his Honor found the name of Mr. Dodd, and then appeared to be convinced that Tommy Dodd was, in truth, a real personage, and not a myth or a diminutive drink.at tommy dodd, n.3
Aus. Star (Sydney) 24 July 7/2: ‘Why,’ said Butler as he left the court, ‘You needn’t want sureties. I’m as well known as a bad shilling’.at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
Aus. Star (Sydney) 9 July 1/2: He was dressed in a dark tweed suit [...] and. had a light soft ‘Chummy’ hat thrown down on the seat beside him.at chummy, n.1
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