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Chron. (Adelaide) 29 July 7/1: [L]et one pause and consider whether this policy of flogging the land will in time utterly exhaust its wheat-producing powers, and make its final condition one of lamentable sterility.at flog, v.
Chron. (Adelaide) 29 July 7/1: [L]et one pause and consider whether this policy of flogging the land will in time utterly exhaust its wheat-producing powers, and make its final condition one of lamentable sterility. Chron. (Adelaide) 19 June 51/5: ‘What’s wrong with, you?’ says I. ‘Why don’t you pull your head in and say what you want to say like a Christian?’.at pull your head in! (excl.) under head, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 25 Dec. 62/1: ‘They’ll make me a girl as usual. I look rather like you then, old dear! - It was a swiz that you couldn’t come down and see me at the breaking-up’ .at swiz, n.2
Chron. (Adelaide) 18 Sept. 66/2: They are accompanied by an equally black fellow with a black plug hat instead of the usual skull-cap. He’s the master sweep and the plug hat is his badge of office.at plug-hat, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 5 Feb. 53/3: It came to pass also in the Land of Oz that the day dawned when no manner of work was done, for the people did make holiday in memory of the foundation of Oz .at Oz, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 28 Apr. 53/1: He could speak English— and speak it well; there was no need for 'barrack lingo' when conversing with him, although several troopers in trying to soothe him, jokingly said, [...] ‘Why you speak it the crab-bat, Pathanee?’.at crab-bat (n.) under bat, n.4
Chron. (Adelaide) 25 Jan. 63/5: That new chum was quick; he let drive a oner before Snapper had has guard up— sort of a right upper cut which nearly shot Snapper’s eyes into his skull.at oner, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 17 oct. 52/2: I must not forget to thank you for your graceful acknowledgement of the little wog. I love making little things like that, and in toy-making, utilise every thing and anything, from paper-clips to tooth paste tops. It is a most fascinating hobby.at wog, n.2
Chron. (Adelaide) 15 June 23/6: West Wind made a run
half-way up the straight, but died on
it, her saddle having slipped forward.at die on it (v.) under die, v.
Chron. (Adelaide) 15 June 63/1: Already the distant hills and the granite outcrop were being swallowed in waves of shimmering mirage; Taffy decided that the day was going to be a ‘real stinker’.at stinker, n.1
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: Queenslanders, Bananalanders, banana men and sugarlanders: Victorians, Yarrasiders, cabbage gardeners, cabbagelanders.at banana man (n.) under banana, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: Queenslanders, Bananalanders, banana men and sugarlanders: Victorians, Yarrasiders, cabbage gardeners, cabbagelanders.at cabbage garden (n.) under cabbage, n.2
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: For people in the Northern Territory, Territorians, topenders. Residents of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea are also known as Territorians. For Tasmanians, Van Diemenese, Derveners, Derwent Ducks, Mountain Devils, Tassies and Tassylanders.at Dervener, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: [Nicknames for] Tasmanians, Van Diemenese, Derveners, Derwent Ducks, Mountain Devils, Tassies and Tassylanders.at Derwent Duck (n.) under Derwent, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: For Tasmanians, Van Diemenese, Derveners, Derwent Ducks, Mountain Devils, Tassies and Tassylanders.at mountain devil (n.) under mountain, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 13 Oct. 43/1: Sister M.C. Friebe, well-known and beloved by hundreds of patients, particularly the ‘skinnies,’ who have passed through No. 8 Ward Repatriation Hospital, Springbank, was married on Saturday.at skinny, n.2
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: Western Australians are known as gropers, sandgropers, straighthairs and Westralians.at straight-hair (n.) under straight, adj.1
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: Queenslanders, Bananalanders, banana men and sugarlanders.at Sugarlander, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: For Tasmanians, Van Diemenese, Derveners, Derwent Ducks, Mountain Devils, Tassies and Tassylanders.at Tassie, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: [Nicknames] [f]or people in the Northern Territory, Territorians, topenders.at Territorian, n.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: [Nicknames] [f]or people in the Northern Territory, Territorians, topenders.at top end (n.) under top, adj.
Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: Queenslanders, Bananalanders, banana men and sugarlanders: Victorians, Yarrasiders, cabbage gardeners, cabbagelanders.at Yarrasider, n.
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