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Wkly Times (Melbourne) 7 May 8/4: The magistrates only fine the larrikin forty shillings when he larrikinises; and he's getting a bit of a nuisance.at larrikinise (v.) under larrikin, n.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 7 May 8/4: The magistrates only fine the larrikin forty shillings when he larrikinises; and he's getting a bit of a nuisance. Wkly Times (Melbourne) 8 Apr. 3/3: I got on very well with him, and was often his off-sider.at offsider, n.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: It doesn’t do the country any manner of good for such men to be going about with a whole bellows full of ‘blow’ about it, and claiming us for close relations.at blow, n.3
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: Their bounce wouldn’t be a bit less shabby than the bounce of a few of these broken-down Melbourne duffers in London, who, mind you, were altogether ‘without honour in their own country.’ .at bounce, n.1
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: Every Jeremy Diddler, who has deserted his creditors in these parts, conveniently forgotten the history of his insolvencies.at diddler, n.2
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: The Tommy Dodds of new chums, that come out by nearly every ship, to call theirselves ‘a number of gentlemen interested in Great Britain,’ and to make believe to represent the British nation in Australia.at tommy dodd, n.3
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: Their bounce wouldn’t be a bit less shabby than the bounce of a few of these broken-down Melbourne duffers in London, who, mind you, were altogether ‘without honour in their own country.’.at duffer, n.2
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: Some of this sort call theirselves ‘returned Australians,’ in London, and gammon to represent us in the little village.at gammon, v.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 9/5: Let us abate, repress, and knock into a cocked hat this nuisance of being claimed as the fellow-countrymen of any, and every Jeremy Diddler, who has deserted his creditors in these parts.at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 18 Dec. 11/2: Waiting for dead men’s shoes is, in most cases, a bootless affair.at wait for dead men’s shoes, v.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 4 Aug. 13/4: That bragging, buffle-headed fellow, Master Gaunson, who, like the Coxcomb of Beaumont and Fletcher, ‘has surfeited of geese,’ objects to his critics.at bufflehead, n.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 3 Apr. 17/1: The vineyard inspector, I suppose, was a ‘man of known ability,’ just like little Benjamin. If so, it’s all serene.at all serene, adj.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 3 Apr. 17/1: [B]ut the magistrate having signed the tail bond, had to anty up; and the prisoner, like the humble petitioner, says ‘he will ever pray’.at ante (up), v.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 1 Feb. 27/4: Feed is poor and scarce, being parched and dried up. As our friends the ‘Salvo’s’ say, ‘send along the rain’.at Salvo, n.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 29 Dec. 6/2: That was another pair of shoes, and another pair of sleeves too, for that matter!at another pair of sleeves under sleeve, n.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 6 Apr. 3/5: ‘Can you manage the boat well enough to come across safely?’ I said [...] ‘She just can manage it a fair treat, I can tell you, sir,’ put in Nat.at fair treat, a (adv.) under fair, adj.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 7 May 21/5: One of the witnesses was said to have been inebriated. This was indignantly denied by another witness, who said that all the other man had had to drink was two ‘tiddle-hi-tis’ of ‘English’.at English, n.1
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 7 May 21/5: [of the melbourne mains supply] He may still take his socialistic beer - the opulent fatmen, of course, providing the money, as usual - and ascribe his ‘hiccupping’ to water. If he say Yan Yean, he may be believed.at Yan Yean, n.
Two Chain Road in Wkly Times (Melbourne) 20 Aug. 5/2: ‘She would think you’d only been fooling, and so would everyone else, and that’s a bit tough for a girl’.at bit tough, a (adj.) under tough, adj.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 4 Jan. 5/2: The landlady where the Harum Scarums ‘hung out’ - their own phraseology - had given up her house and time (not without grave misgivings) to looking after them.at hang out, v.1
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 4 Jan. 5/2: He [...] pillaged the larder for bread, scones, tarts - anything he could lay his grimy paws upon. He rolled them swagwise in a kitchen towel.at swagwise (adv.) under swag, n.1
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 4 Jan. 5/2: ‘Would you like me to bring it out, and play to you here?’ ‘True dinkum?’ he asked, his pale little face, alight.at true dinkum (n.) under true, adj.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 1 Sept.6/1: ‘Cynthia!’ he gasped. ‘Jove! it’s cruel. Square Jane, and no nonsense, eh, my girl?’.at square Jane, no nonsense (adj.) under square, adj.
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 35/4: Disgusted small Boy (at vicarage Christmas dinner, to vicar, on discovering threepenny-bit in pudding): ‘I say, Uncle, what a swizz! This is the threepenny-bit with a hole in it I gave you in the collection last Sunday!’ .at swiz, n.2
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 7 May 21/5: Referring to his wife, Mortimer said, ‘I used her only as a dummy. She would not stand for anything like this’.at dummy, n.1
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 7 May 21/5: ‘How many have you against me? Get them all on at once and I will probably nod the head (plead guilty)’.at nod the nut (v.) under nut, n.1
Wkly Times (Melbourne) 30 Apr. 45/2: Alas — when toasts were proposed and drunk, the ‘little lass’ (who has always had a passion for what she calls ‘lolly water’), insisted upon emptying her glass each time.at lollywater, n.
Wkly Times Melbourne 17 May 333/4: If prisoners take to religion / And turn with a smirk to the East, / That is, it would seem, their own pigeon, / But it is quite novel at least.at pigeon, n.2
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