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[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 25 Oct. 9/5: Sing a song o’ threepence, / Here’s a nice surprise; / Four or five thousand / Teachers get a rise / Get an extra ‘tray-bit’ / Every afternoon.
at trey-bit, n.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 25 Oct. 9/5: Sing a song o’ three ‘browns,’ / Think of what it means, / ‘Busted up’ on ice creams / Or on limousines.
at brown, n.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 25 Oct. 9/5: Sing a song o’ three ‘browns,’ / Think of what it means, / ‘Busted up’ on ice creams / Or on limousines.
at bust, v.1
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 25 Oct. 9/5: Sing a song o’ threepence, / Here’s a great profession, / Sweeps another ‘trizzie’ / Into its possession.
at trizzie, n.1
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 27 Nov. 2/3: Here some of the younger members howled him down and after offering to take any of them on out where the bull feeds, and chuck in the difference in age, Long Dan retired from the meeting.
at out where the bull feeds under bull, n.1
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 21 Feb. 8/4: ‘No, mate [...] I never seen your name on jam tins. I don’t know you from a bar of soap’.
at not know (B) from a bar of soap (v.) under not know..., v.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 18 Sept. 8/3: [A] violent blinding dust-storm swept over the town in gushes, and at times severe darkness prevailed. This class of weather is known as the ‘Darling Showers’.
at Darling shower (n.) under Darling, adj.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 22 July 6/3: When a man wants to fight a policeman you can wager your best pair of ‘Prince Albert’s’ that he is as sozzled as a wet hen.
at Prince Alberts, n.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 22 July 6/3: He was full right up to the neck. He was so beautifully blithered that he wanted to fight a 15-stone Constable O’Groogy.
at blithered, adj.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 22 July 6/3: When a man wants to fight a policeman you can wager your best pair of ‘Prince Albert’s’ that he is as sozzled as a wet hen.
at sozzled, adj.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 26 Oct. 6/1: You know you are as silly as a whip-snake when you get a few under your ‘Jacky Howe’.
at ...a whip snake under silly as…, adj.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 29 June 6/3: ‘Why you big, hulking waster and beer swiper,’ he said.
at beer-swiper (n.) under beer, n.
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 15 June 9/5: [from Sydney Truth] BANG! WENT £76. A Depar Tote-Backer Who Wasn’t [...] He had invested £40 straight out on Depar at 33/1, and when the chesnut finished second he felt that his eight tickets on the ‘giddy-goat’ would more than return his straight out investments.
at giddy goat, n.
[Aus] ‘Bowyang Bill’ in Narromine News (NSW) 8 July 5/4: [He] asked the barmaid for a pot without a collar.
at pot, n.1
[Aus] Narromine News (NSW) 12 Oct. 8/4: Though yesterday started off as a much more pleasant day than last Monday by lunchtime clouds of dust were blowing up from the south. A real ‘Bogan shower.’.
at Bogan shower, n.
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